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According to Wikipedia, Arline T. Geronimus is an American public health researcher and a professor of Health Behavior & Health Education at the University of Michigan, as well as a research professor at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center. Geronimus is known for proposing the weathering hypothesis in 1992, which posits that cumulative racism experienced by black women cause them to experience inferior birth outcomes as their maternal age increases. She has also studied other issues regarding pregnancy, including the effect of teenage childbearing on the mother's economic status and the effect of immigration enforcement raids on low birth weight. Since originating the weathering hypothesis, Geronimus has extended it to implications for health across the life course for men and women in a variety of culturally oppressed, marginalized, or economically exploited social identity groups in the United States. Dr. Geronimus' book, "WEATHERING: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society" is being published by Little Brown in March 2023.

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Arline Geronimus's Published Works

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"Weathering" and age patterns of allostatic load scores among blacks and whites in the United States. (2006) (1650)
The weathering hypothesis and the health of African-American women and infants: evidence and speculations. (1992) (1081)
The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Childbearing Reconsidered (1991) (652)
Black/white differences in the relationship of maternal age to birthweight: a population-based test of the weathering hypothesis. (1996) (603)
Use of census-based aggregate variables to proxy for socioeconomic group: evidence from national samples. (1998) (439)
Damned if you do: culture, identity, privilege, and teenage childbearing in the United States. (2003) (370)
Excess mortality among blacks and whites in the United States. (1996) (368)
To mitigate, resist, or undo: addressing structural influences on the health of urban populations. (2000) (322)
Understanding and eliminating racial inequalities in women's health in the United States: the role of the weathering conceptual framework. (2001) (319)
Do US Black Women Experience Stress-Related Accelerated Biological Aging? (2010) (309)
On the Validity of Using Census Geocode Characteristics to Proxy Individual Socioeconomic Characteristics (1995) (281)
Does young maternal age adversely affect child development? Evidence from cousin comparisons. (1994) (232)
Racial Discrimination, John Henryism, and Depression Among African Americans (2016) (218)
On Teenage Childbearing and Neonatal Mortality in the United States (1987) (204)
Race-Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Stressors, and Telomere Length in a Detroit Community-based Sample (2015) (203)
Change in birth outcomes among infants born to Latina mothers after a major immigration raid. (2017) (203)
Are benefits conferred with greater socioeconomic position undermined by racial discrimination among African American men? (2012) (190)
Maternal youth or family background? On the health disadvantages of infants with teenage mothers. (1993) (184)
Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight. (2006) (167)
TO DENIGRATE, IGNORE, OR DISRUPT: Racial Inequality in Health and the Impact of a Policy-induced Breakdown of African American Communities (2004) (162)
Stress, Allostatic Load and Health of Mexican Immigrants. (2009) (161)
The relationship between socioeconomic position and depression among a US nationally representative sample of African Americans (2011) (157)
What teen mothers know (1996) (155)
Inequality in life expectancy, functional status, and active life expectancy across selected black and white populations in the United States (2001) (145)
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC). (2016) (136)
Teenage Childbearing and Social and Reproductive Disadvantage: The Evolution of Complex Questions and the Demise of Simple Answers. (1991) (135)
Teenage childbearing and personal responsibility: an alternative view. (1997) (135)
Poverty, time, and place: variation in excess mortality across selected US populations, 1980-1990. (1999) (134)
The survival of very low-birth weight infants by level of hospital of birth: a population study of perinatal systems in four states. (1985) (123)
The effects of race, residence, and prenatal care on the relationship of maternal age to neonatal mortality. (1986) (121)
Age patterns of smoking in US black and white women of childbearing age. (1993) (119)
Ethnic Differences in Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms: Disadvantage in Family Background, High School Experiences, and Adult Characteristics∗ (2009) (113)
Life Course Approaches to the Causes of Health Disparities. (2019) (108)
Black-white differences in age trajectories of hypertension prevalence among adult women and men, 1999-2002. (2007) (97)
“Weathering” HOPE VI: The Importance of Evaluating the Population Health Impact of Public Housing Demolition and Displacement (2011) (91)
Health inequality and population variation in fertility-timing. (1999) (87)
Deep integration: letting the epigenome out of the bottle without losing sight of the structural origins of population health. (2013) (84)
Measuring Recent Apparent Declines In Longevity: The Role Of Increasing Educational Attainment. (2015) (81)
Teenage childbearing as cultural prism. (2004) (80)
America’s Declining Well-Being, Health, and Life Expectancy: Not Just a White Problem (2018) (73)
Accumulating Disadvantage Over the Life Course (2008) (73)
The socioeconomic costs of teenage childbearing: Evidence and interpretation (1993) (72)
Excess black mortality in the United States and in selected black and white high-poverty areas, 1980-2000. (2011) (72)
Black lives matter: Differential mortality and the racial composition of the U.S. electorate, 1970-2004. (2015) (61)
Getting a piece of the pie? The economic boom of the 1990s and declining teen birth rates in the United States. (2006) (59)
Jedi public health: Co-creating an identity-safe culture to promote health equity (2016) (53)
Differences in hypertension prevalence among U.S. black and white women of childbearing age. (1991) (53)
Energy efficiency as energy justice: addressing racial inequities through investments in people and places (2019) (48)
Community-Based Support among African American Public Housing Residents (2011) (46)
Invited commentary: Using area-based socioeconomic measures--think conceptually, act cautiously. (2006) (46)
Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic characteristics, coethnic social ties, and health: evidence from the national Jewish population survey. (2011) (44)
The Implications of Differential Trends in Mortality for Social Security Policy (2014) (42)
Black-White Disparities in Breast Cancer Subtype: The Intersection of Socially Patterned Stress and Genetic Expression (2017) (41)
Teenage childbearing and social disadvantage: unprotected discourse. (1992) (41)
US infant mortality and the President's party. (2014) (41)
Weathering, Drugs, and Whack-a-Mole: Fundamental and Proximate Causes of Widening Educational Inequity in U.S. Life Expectancy by Sex and Race, 1990–2015 (2019) (39)
Residential Mobility Across Local Areas in the United States and the Geographic Distribution of the Healthy Population (2014) (34)
Patterns of blood lead levels in US black and white women of childbearing age. (1992) (33)
Clashes of Common Sense: On the Previous Child Care Experience of Teenage Mothers-To-Be (1992) (33)
Reducing infant mortality in rural America: evaluation of the Rural Infant Care Program. (1987) (32)
Associations between breast cancer subtype and neighborhood socioeconomic and racial composition among Black and White women (2020) (31)
Urban-Rural Differences in Excess Mortality among High-Poverty Populations: Evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health (2006) (29)
Leaving Chicago for Iowa's "Fields of Opportunity": Community Dispossession, Rootlessness, and the Quest for Somewhere to "Be OK" (2010) (28)
Erratum: Accumulating disadvantage over the life course: Evidence from a longitudinal study investigating the relationship between educational advantage in youth and health in middle age (Research on Aging (2008) 30 (169-199) DOI:10.1177/0164027507311149) (2008) (20)
The Best of Intentions: A Structural Analysis of the Association between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unintended Pregnancy in a Sample of Mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979). (2017) (19)
Cohort and Duration Patterns Among Asian Immigrants: Comparing Trends in Obesity and Self-Rated Health (2015) (18)
Black/white differences in women’s reproductive-related health status: evidence from vital statistics (1990) (18)
Cortisol and Racial Health Disparities Affecting Black Men in Later Life: Evidence From MIDUS II (2019) (17)
RACIAL/ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN INFANT MORTALITY AMONG U.S. LATINOS (2013) (14)
Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility (2004) (14)
On the validity of using census geocode characteristics to proxy socioeconomic status. (1994) (13)
Behavioral mechanisms in HIV epidemiology and prevention: past, present, and future roles. (2009) (13)
Parental Loss and Residential Instability: The Impact on Young Women from Low-Income Households in Detroit (2015) (13)
Rejoinder: Time series analysis and US infant mortality: de-trending the empirical from the polemical in political epidemiology. (2014) (12)
A note on the measurement of hypertension in HHANES. (1990) (12)
Economic Inequality and Social Differentials in Mortality (1999) (11)
Widening Black/White mortality differentials among US children during the 1980s. (2001) (11)
Educational gradients in five Asian immigrant populations: Do country of origin, duration and generational status moderate the education-health relationship? (2016) (10)
Weathering in Detroit: Place, Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty as Conceptually Fluctuating Social Constructs Shaping Variation in Allostatic Load. (2020) (9)
Chapter 11. Jedi Public Health: Leveraging Contingencies of Social Identity to Grasp and Eliminate Racial Health Inequality (2013) (8)
Chapter 2 – The Mutability of Women’s Health with Age: The Sometimes Rapid, and Often Enduring, Health Consequences of Injustice (2013) (8)
Faulty interpretation of observed racial disparity in recurrent preterm birth. (2007) (7)
State-Level Policy Stigma and Non-Prescribed Hormones Use among Trans Populations in the United States: A Mediational Analysis of Insurance and Anticipated Stigma. (2021) (7)
1980-1990 . mortality across selected US populations , Poverty , time , and place : variation in excess (1999) (6)
Stigmatizing Policies Interact with Mental Health and Sexual Behaviours to Structurally Induce HIV Diagnoses Among European Men Who Have Sex with Men (2022) (5)
Comment on “toward a reformulation of the neonatal mortality rate” by Dudley L. Poston and Richard G. Rogers (1986) (5)
Coming up short: Comparing venous blood, dried blood spots & saliva samples for measuring telomere length in health equity research (2021) (5)
A Practical Guide to Biological Primary Data Collection in an Impoverished Urban Setting: Illuminating Structural and Social Influences on Population Health Inequity (2018) (4)
Differences in All-Cause Mortality Among Transgender and Non-Transgender People Enrolled in Private Insurance. (2022) (4)
Commentary: Weathering Chicago. (2003) (4)
Partisan Control of U.S. State Governments: Politics as a Social Determinant of Infant Health. (2021) (3)
US Black-White Differences in Mortality Risk Among Transgender and Cisgender People in Private Insurance, 2011-2019. (2022) (3)
Maternal youth or family background? Preliminary findings on the health disadvantages of infants with teenage mothers. (1991) (3)
Local Economic Hardship and Its Role in Life Expectancy Trends (2018) (2)
Getting a Piece of the Pie? Declining Teen Birth Rates During the 1990s (2002) (2)
Age patterns of smoking among U.S. black and white women. (1991) (2)
GERONIMUS ET AL. RESPOND (2011) (2)
Urban Life and Health (2001) (1)
Energy efficiency as energy justice: addressing racial inequities through investments in people and places (2019) (1)
Authors' response: politicization with misrepresentation: on de-trending in time series analysis. (2014) (1)
The Political Realignment of Health: How Partisan Power Shaped Infant Health in the U.S., 1915-2017. (2021) (1)
Educational Attainment Measuring Recent Apparent Declines In Longevity : The Role Of Increasing Waidmann (2015) (0)
A Noteon theMeasurement ofHypertension inHHANES (1990) (0)
Letters to the Editor Authors' response: Politicization with misrepresentation: on de-trending in time series analysis (2014) (0)
Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured CONFERENCE DRAFT Urban / Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations : Evidence from the Harlem Health Survey and Pitt County Hypertension Study (2004) (0)
Stigmatizing policies’ influence on HIV risk through their effect on internalized homonegativity and health behaviors among men who have sex with men in Europe (2020) (0)
Black Lives Matter: Differential Mortality and the Racial Composition of the U.S. Electorate, 1970â€“2004 (2015) (0)
Race/Ethnicity,SocioeconomicCharacteristics,Coethnic SocialTies,andHealth:EvidenceFromtheNationalJewish PopulationSurvey (2011) (0)
US Life Expectancy: The Authors Reply. (2016) (0)
Young Mothers?Ann Phoenix (1992) (0)
Parental Loss and Residential Instability: The Impact on Young Women from Low-Income Households in Detroit (2013) (0)
Trend Toward Older Maternal Age Contributed To Growing Racial Inequity In Very-Low-Birthweight Infants In The US. (2023) (0)
SYSTEMATICALLY SHORTCHANGED, YET CARRYING ON (2020) (0)
Abstract P392: Association Between Migration to the US, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Mexican Migrants and Non-Migrants (2019) (0)
DeepIntegration:LettingtheEpigenomeOutoftheBottleWithout LosingSightoftheStructuralOriginsofPopulationHealth (2013) (0)
Comment on Pampel and Pillai’s “patterns and determinants of infant mortality in developed nations, 1950–1975” (1988) (0)
Correction to: Stigmatizing Policies Interact with Mental Health and Sexual Behaviours to Structurally Induce HIV Diagnoses Among European Men Who Have Sex with Men (2022) (0)
The Weight of Migration: Reconsidering Health Selection and Return Migration among Mexicans (2021) (0)

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