Irene Yen

Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Dr. Yen is currently funded by a grant from the National Institutes on Aging to study neighborhood environment's influence on the health of older adults. This grant includes two components: quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative component is a secondary analysis of data from the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP). CHAP includes three types of data on neighborhood environment: survey, census, and direct observation. The qualitative component is a project to develop a survey measurement tool to assess health-relevant aspects of neighborhood for older adults. Developing a survey tool begins with concept development through intensive interviews of older adults in San Francisco and Oakland.

Dr. Yen received an IDEA award from the California Breast Cancer Research Program in 2006 to study the influence of city planning policies and neighborhood environments on girls' physical activity, diet, and growth trajectories.

Dr Ellen Kersten assists her in the reviews for F1000 medicine.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Public Health & Epidemiology > Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health (since 12 December 2005)

Links

http://dgim.ucsf.edu/about/yen.html

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Neighborhoods and obesity.
  Recommended by Irene Yen with Ellen Kersten
  
• 6.0
  Role of socialization in explaining social inequalities in health.
  Recommended by Irene Yen with Ellen Kersten
  
• 9.0
  Epidemiology and the web of causation: has anyone seen the spider?
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• 6.0
  A multi-perspective approach for defining neighbourhood units in the context of a study on health inequalities in the Quebec City region.
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• 6.0
  Race and food store availability in an inner-city neighbourhood.
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• 6.0
  "Weathering" and age patterns of allostatic load scores among blacks and whites in the United States.
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• 6.0
  Racial discrimination and blood pressure: the CARDIA Study of young black and white adults.
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• 3.0
  Engaging urban residents in assessing neighborhood environments and their implications for health.
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• 3.0
  Life-course influences on health in British adults: effects of socio-economic position in childhood and adulthood.
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• 4.8
  Effect of cross-level interaction between individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status on adult mortality rates.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist, Irene Yen
  
• 6.0
  Socioeconomic status and health. The challenge of the gradient.
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• 3.0
  Poverty and health. Prospective evidence from the Alameda County Study.
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• 3.0
  Do biomarkers of stress mediate the relation between socioeconomic status and health?
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• 6.0
  Relationship of early life stress and psychological functioning to adult C-reactive protein in the coronary artery risk development in young adults study.
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• 6.0
  Linking social capital and self-rated health: a multilevel analysis of 11,175 men and women in Sweden.
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• 6.0
  Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility.
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• 6.0
  Determinants of variation in food cost and availability in two socioeconomically contrasting neighbourhoods of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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• 3.0
  Measuring neighbourhood social and material context: generation and interpretation of ecological data from routine and non-routine sources.
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• 3.0
  Perceptions of social capital and the built environment and mental health.
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• 6.0
  Neighborhood socioeconomic context, individual income and myocardial infarction.
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