Selected Publications by Topical Category

I. Social Determinants and Disparities in Health
A. General Overview
TitleCitedYear
Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death, and Social Policy
JS House
Russell Sage Foundation., 2015
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Understanding social factors and inequalities in health: 20th century progress and 21st century prospects
JS House
Journal of health and social behavior, 125-142, 2002
390 2002
Making Americans healthier: Social and economic policy as health policy
Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
53 2008
B. Occupational Stress and Health
Work stress and social support
JS House
4635 1981
Occupational stress and coronary heart disease: A review and theoretical integration
JS House
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 12-27, 1974
352 1974
Effects of unemployment on health in a community survey: Main, modifying, and mediating effects
RC Kessler, JB Turner, JS House
Journal of social issues 44 (4), 69-85, 1988
333 1988
Occupational stress and health among factory workers
JS House, JA Wells, LR Landerman, AJ McMichael, BH Kaplan
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 139-160, 1979
317 1979
Chronic job insecurity among automobile workers: Effects on job satisfaction and health
CA Heaney, BA Israel, JS House
Social science & medicine 38 (10), 1431-1437, 1994
300 1994
Unemployment and health in a community sample
RC Kessler, JS House, JB Turner
Journal of health and social behavior, 51-59, 1987
290 1987
Unemployment, reemployment, and emotional functioning in a community sample
RC Kessler, JB Turner, JS House
American Sociological Review, 648-657, 1989
240 1989
Occupational stress and health among men and women in the Tecumseh Community Health Study
JS House, V Strecher, HL Metzner, CA Robbins
Journal of health and social behavior, 62-77, 1986
236 1986
Intervening processes in the relationship between unemployment and health
RC Kessler, JB Turner, JS House
Psychological medicine 17 (04), 949-961, 1987
196 1987
Relation of work and retirement to health and well-being in older age.
A Herzog, JS House, JN Morgan
Psychology and aging 6 (2), 202, 1991
182 1991
Job dissatisfaction as a possible risk factor in coronary heart disease
SM Sales, J House
Journal of chronic diseases 23 (12), 861-873, 1971
181 1971
The relation of personal resources, participation, influence, interpersonal relationships and coping strategies to occupational stress, job strains and health: A multivariate analysis
BA Israel, JS House, SJ Schurman, CA Heaney, RP Mero
Work & Stress 3 (2), 163-194, 1989
168 1989
Toward a better estimation of the effect of job loss on health
SA Burgard, JE Brand, JS House
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48 (4), 369-384, 2007
140 2007
Occupational Stress and the Mental and Physical Health of Factory Workers. Research Report Series.
JS House
Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, PO Box 1248, Ann ..., 1980
139 1980
Action research on occupational stress: involving workers as researchers
BA Israel, SJ Schurman, JS House
International Journal of Health Services 19 (1), 135-155, 1989
135 1989
Effects of childhood family background on adult marital quality and perceived stability
PS Webster, TL Orbuch, JS House
American Journal of Sociology, 404-432, 1995
125 1995
Perceived job insecurity and worker health in the United States
SA Burgard, JE Brand, JS House
Social science & medicine 69 (5), 777-785, 2009
122 2009
Work stress, nonwork stress, and health
S Klitzman, JS House, BA Israel, RP Mero
Journal of behavioral medicine 13 (3), 221-243, 1990
112 1990
Factors facilitating adjustment to unemployment: implications for intervention
JB Turner, RC Kessler, JS House
American Journal of Community Psychology 19 (4), 521-542, 1991
96 1991
C. Social Relationships/ Support and Health
Social relationships and health
JS House, KR Landis, D Umberson
Science 241 (4865), 540-545, 1988
5204 1988
Work stress and social support
JS House
4635 1981
The association of social relationships and activities with mortality: prospective evidence from the Tecumseh Community Health Study
JS House, C Robbins, HL Metzner
American journal of epidemiology 116 (1), 123-140, 1982
1421 1982
Measures and concepts of social support.
JS House, RL Kahn, JD McLeod, D Williams
Academic Press, 1985
1403 1985
Structures and processes of social support
JS House, D Umberson, KR Landis
Annual review of sociology, 293-318, 1988
1352 1988
Social support, occupational stress, and health
JM LaRocco, JS House, JRP French Jr
Journal of health and Social Behavior, 202-218, 1980
1032 1980
The effect of social relationships on psychological well-being: Are men and women really so different?
D Umberson, MD Chen, JS House, K Hopkins, E Slaten
American sociological review, 837-857, 1996
437 1996
Occupational stress, social support and health
JS House, JA Wells
Reducing occupational stress: Proceedings of a conference, 78-140, 1978
292 1978
Social isolation kills, but how and why?
JS House
Psychosomatic medicine 63 (2), 273-274, 2001
250 2001
Social support and social structure
JS House
Sociological Forum 2 (1), 135-146, 1987
215 1987
D. Social Disparities in Health
Socioeconomic factors, health behaviors, and mortality: results from a nationally representative prospective study of US adults
PM Lantz, JS House, JM Lepkowski, DR Williams, RP Mero, J Chen
Jama 279 (21), 1703-1708, 1998
1301 1998
Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions
JW Lynch, GD Smith, GA Kaplan, JS House
BMJ: British Medical Journal 320 (7243), 1200, 2000
1177 2000
The social stratification of aging and health
JS House, JM Lepkowski, AM Kinney, RP Mero, RC Kessler, AR Herzog
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 213-234, 1994
865 1994
Age, socioeconomic status, and health
JS House, RC Kessler, AR Herzog
The Milbank Quarterly, 383-411, 1990
799 1990
Income dynamics and adult mortality in the United States, 1972 through 1989.
P McDonough, GJ Duncan, D Williams, J House
American journal of public health 87 (9), 1476-1483, 1997
400 1997
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: the role of health-risk behaviors
PM Lantz, JW Lynch, JS House, JM Lepkowski, RP Mero, MA Musick, ...
Social science & medicine 53 (1), 29-40, 2001
348 2001
Understanding and Reducing
JS House, DR Williams
Promoting Health:: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral ..., 2000
348 2000
SES differentials in health by age and alternative indicators of SES
S Robert, JS House
Journal of Aging and Health 8 (3), 359-388, 1996
276 1996
Stress, life events, and socioeconomic disparities in health: results from the Americans' Changing Lives Study
PM Lantz, JS House, RP Mero, DR Williams
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 46 (3), 274-288, 2005
263 2005
Continuity and change in the social stratification of aging and health over the life course: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study from 1986 to 2001/2002 (Americans' Changing Lives Study)
JS House, PM Lantz, P Herd
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social ..., 2005
226 2005
Understanding social disparities in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control: the role of neighborhood context
JD Morenoff, JS House, BB Hansen, DR Williams, GA Kaplan, HE Hunte
Social science & medicine 65 (9), 1853-1866, 2007
173 2007
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: Integrating Individual-, Community-, and
SA Robert, JS House
The handbook of social studies in health and medicine, 115, 2003
140 2003
Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model
AJ Schulz, S Kannan, JT Dvonch, BA Israel, A Allen III, SA James, ...
Environmental Health Perspectives, 1817-1825, 2005
137 2005
Socioeconomic position and health: the differential effects of education versus income on the onset versus progression of health problems
P Herd, B Goesling, JS House
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48 (3), 223-238, 2007
132 2007
Gender and the socioeconomic gradient in mortality
P McDonough, DR Williams, JS House, GJ Duncan
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 17-31, 1999
117 1999
Socioeconomic and behavioral risk factors for mortality in a national 19-year prospective study of US adults
PM Lantz, E Golberstein, JS House, J Morenoff
Social science & medicine 70 (10), 1558-1566, 2010
104 2010
Education, income, and functional limitation transitions among American adults: contrasting onset and progression
Z Zimmer, JS House
International Journal of Epidemiology 32 (6), 1089-1097, 2003
100 2003
Socioeconomic inequalities in health: An enduring sociological problem
SA Robert, JS House
Handbook of medical sociology 5, 79-97, 2000
90 2000
Racial and socioeconomic disparities in residential proximity to polluting industrial facilities: evidence from the Americans' Changing Lives Study
P Mohai, PM Lantz, J Morenoff, JS House, RP Mero
American Journal of Public Health 99 (S3), S649-S656, 2009
52 2009
Commentary: Relating Social Inequalities in Health and Income: Comments Stimulated by Mellor and Milyo
JS House
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 26 (3), 523-532, 2001
38 2001
E. Other
Volunteering and mortality among older adults: Findings from a national sample
MA Musick, AR Herzog, JS House
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social ..., 1999
446 1999
The relationship between age and depressive symptoms in two national surveys.
RC Kessler, C Foster, PS Webster, JS House
Psychology and aging 7 (1), 119, 1992
261 1992
Marital quality and psychological adjustment to widowhood among older adults a longitudinal analysis
D Carr, JS House, RC Kessler, RM Nesse, J Sonnega, C Wortman
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social ..., 2000
202 2000
Attendance at religious services and mortality in a national sample
MA Musick, JS House, DR Williams
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45 (2), 198-213, 2004
160 2004
Psychological adjustment to sudden and anticipated spousal loss among older widowed persons
D Carr, JS House, C Wortman, R Nesse, RC Kessler
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social ..., 2001
145 2001
Productive activities and aging well.
A Herzog, JS House
Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, 1991
111 1991
Acute effects of ambient particulate matter on blood pressure differential effects across urban communities
JT Dvonch, S Kannan, AJ Schulz, GJ Keeler, G Mentz, J House, ...
Hypertension 53 (5), 853-859, 2009
93 2009
Religion and emotional compensation: Results from a prospective study of widowhood
SL Brown, RM Nesse, JS House, RL Utz
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 30 (9), 1165-1174, 2004
83 2004
Excess mortality among urban residents: how much, for whom, and why?
JS House, JM Lepkowski, DR Williams, RP Mero, PM Lantz, SA Robert, ...
American Journal of Public Health 90 (12), 1898, 2000
81 2000
II. Social Psychology
Social structure and personality
JS House
Social psychology: Sociological perspectives 525, 561, 1981
319 1981
The three faces of social psychology
JS House
Sociometry, 161-177, 1977
282 1977
The relationship between age and depressive symptoms in two national surveys.
RC Kessler, C Foster, PS Webster, JS House
Psychology and aging 7 (1), 119, 1992
261 1992
Social support and social structure
JS House
Sociological Forum 2 (1), 135-146, 1987
215 1987
Marital quality over the life course
TL Orbuch, JS House, RP Mero, PS Webster
Social Psychology Quarterly, 162-171, 1996
140 1996
Effects of urban residence on interpersonal trust and helping behavior.
JS House, S Wolf
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 36 (9), 1029, 1978
116 1978
Political alienation in America, 1952-1968
JS House, WM Mason
American Sociological Review, 123-147, 1975
96 1975
Sociological perspectives on social psychology
Allyn and Bacon, 1995
72* 1995
Why and when is status inconsistency stressful?
JS House, EB Harkins
American Journal of Sociology, 395-412, 1975
67 1975
On the dimensions of political alienation in America
WM Mason, JS House, SS Martin
Sociological methodology, 111-151, 1985
57 1985
III. Survey Research
Increasing mail questionnaire response: A controlled replication and extension
JS House, W Gerber, AJ McMichael
Public Opinion Quarterly, 95-99, 1977
40 1977
A telescope on society: survey research and social science at the University of Michigan and beyond
JS House, FT Juster, RL Kahn, H Schuman, E Singer
University of Michigan Press, 2004
14 2004