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David H. Rehkopf
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 197
Citations - 9491
David H. Rehkopf is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Socioeconomic status. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 174 publications receiving 8089 citations. Previous affiliations of David H. Rehkopf include University of California, San Francisco & University of California, Berkeley.
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U.S. disparities in health: descriptions, causes, and mechanisms.
Nancy E. Adler,David H. Rehkopf +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that although health is consistently worse for individuals with few resources and for blacks as compared with whites, the extent of health disparities varies by outcome, time, and geographic location within the United States.
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Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Monitoring Socioeconomic Gradients in Health: A Comparison of Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures—The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project
TL;DR: Among White, Black, and Hispanic women and men, measures of economic deprivation were most sensitive to expected socioeconomic gradients in health, with the most consistent results and maximal geocoding linkage evident for tract-level analyses.
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Painting a truer picture of US socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequalities: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project.
TL;DR: Geocoding and use of the CT poverty measure permit routine monitoring of US socioeconomic inequalities in health, using a common and accessible metric.
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Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors
Matthew S. Pantell,David H. Rehkopf,Douglas P. Jutte,S. Leonard Syme,John R. Balmes,Nancy E. Adler +5 more
TL;DR: The strength of social isolation as a predictor of mortality is similar to that of well-documented clinical risk factors, and the results suggest the importance of assessing patients' level of social isolate.
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The association between suicide and the socio-economic characteristics of geographical areas: a systematic review
David H. Rehkopf,Stephen L. Buka +1 more
TL;DR: Enhanced attention to size of region and measurement strategies provide a clearer picture of how suicide rates vary by region, and resources for suicide prevention should be targeted to high poverty/deprivation and high unemployment areas.