Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 181-190 , May 2008

Individual and Neighborhood Differences in Diet Among Low-Income Foreign and U.S.-Born Women

  • Tamara Dubowitz, ScD

      Affiliations

    • RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • Tamara Dubowitz is a public health researcher with interests in women and children's health and policy across the life span, and particularly in public health nutrition and the social context of vulnerable populations. Her research interests include neighborhood effects, particularly that of the built physical and social environment, obesity and diet related disease.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Tamara Dubowitz, ScD, RAND Corporation, 4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; Phone: 412-683-2300, X4400; Fax: 412-683-2800.
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  • S.V. Subramanian, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
    • S.V. Subramanian is a geographer who specializes in multilevel statistical methods. His research focuses mainly on understanding how different contextual settings influence individual health outcomes and the population disparities in health achievements. His work has demonstrated the need to explicitly consider a multilevel methodological framework while conceptualizing and estimating contextual effects on public health issues.
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  • Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, MPA-URP, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Dolores Acevedo-Garcia has a doctoral degree in public policy and demography. Her research interests include the effect of social determinants (e.g., residential segregation, immigrant integration) on health disparities, especially along racial and ethnic lines, and the role of non-health policies (e.g., housing policies, immigrant policies) in reducing those disparities.
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  • Theresa L. Osypuk, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Theresa L. Osypuk is a social epidemiologist researching racial/ethnic, nativity, and socioeconomic health disparities and their geographic patterns. Her research examines why, when, and for whom place matters for health and health disparities, specifically in relation to housing markets, residential segregation, and neighborhoods, as well as how social policies may mitigate racial/ethnic health disparities.
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  • Karen E. Peterson, ScD, RD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Karen E. Peterson's research considers determinants of intergenerational patterns of growth and the design and evaluation of domestic and international surveillance systems and community-based nutrition interventions in low income, multi-ethnic populations.

Received 21 May 2007 ,Accepted 20 November 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.11.001

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 181-190 , May 2008

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