Department of
Sociology

Center for
Innovation

Wilbur Hadden

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Senior Research Scientist

For many years Wilbur worked for the Centers for Disease Control at the National Center for Health Statistics. He worked on National Health Examination Surveys and on innovative research projects. While at CDC he consulted with the Pakistan Medical Research Council on the National Health Survey of Pakistan and follow-up projects. After leaving the CDC he worked briefly with the National Institute on Aging and then taught at the Aga Khan University in Karachi and the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in Nanjing, China. His research interests are in social inequalities in health, population health status and how it changes with social and economic development, and the development of institutions that promote population health.

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Valadez JJ, B Devkota, C Jerffery, and WC Hadden. 2019. How Well Do Mothers Recall Their Own and Their Infants’ Perinatal Events? A Two-District Study Using Cross-Sectional Stratified Random Sampling in Bihar, India. BMJ Open (9): e031289. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031289. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031289 35 1 1
Jeffery, C, CA Beckworth, WC Hadden, J Ouma, S Lwanga, JJ Valadez. 2016. Associations with HIV testing in Uganda: an analysis of the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling database 2003-2012. AIDS Care, 28(4), 519-523. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1112350 15 4 7
Crossland, N, WC Hadden, WE Vargas, JJ Valadez, C Jeffery. 2015. Sexual and reproductive health among Ugandan youth: 2003-04 to 2012. Journal of Adolescent Health 57 (4), 393-398. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.06.015 159 16 25
WC Hadden, PD Rockswold. 2008. Increasing differential mortality by educational attainment in adults in the United States. International Journal of Health Services 38(1):47-61. doi: 10.2190/HS.38.1.c 20 22 30
N Kravets, WC Hadden. 2007. The accuracy of address coding and the effect of coding errors. Health & Place 13(1):293-298. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2005.08.006 39 76 91
WC Hadden, N Kravets, C Muntaner. 2004. Descriptive dimensions of US occupation with data from the O*NET. Social Science Research 33(1):64-78. doi: 10.1016/S0049-089X(03)00039-5 101 57 88
WC Hadden, Pappas G and Khan AQ. 2003. Social stratification, development and health in Pakistan: an empirical exploration of relationships in population-based national health examination survey data. Social Science and Medicine 57(10):1863-74. doi: 10.1016/s0277-9536(03)00052-2 210 18 22
AH Auchincloss and WC Hadden. 2002. The health effects of rural-urban residence and concentrated poverty. Rural Health 18(2):319-36. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2002.tb00894.x 159 98 131
M-J Soobader, FB LeClere, WC Hadden, B Maury. 2001. Using aggregate geographic data to proxy individual socioeconomic status: does size matter? American Journal of Public Health 91(4):632-5. doi: 10.2105/ajph.91.4.632 796 175 226
G Pappas, T Akhtar, PJ Gergen, WC Hadden and AQ Khan. 2001. Health status of the Pakistani population: a health profile and comparison to the United States. American Journal of Public Health 91;1(January):93-8. doi: 10.2105/ajph.91.1.93 366 166 158
LM Schalick, WC Hadden, E Pamuk, V Navarro, G Pappas. 2000. The widening gap in death rates among income groups in the United States: 1967, 1986. International Journal of Health Services. 30;1:13-26. doi: 10.2190/8QMH-4FAB-XAWP-VU95 32 90 118
G Pappas, WC Hadden, LJ Kozak, GF Fisher. 1997. Potentially avoidable hospitalizations: inequalities in rates between US socioeconomic groups. American Journal of Public Health 87;5(May):811-16. doi: 10.2105/ajph.87.5.811 64 370 533
WC Hadden. 1996. Annotation: The Use of Educational Attainment as an Indicator of Socioeconomic Position. Am J Public Health 86 (11):1525-6. doi: 10.2105/ajph.86.11.1525 23 24 40
G Pappas, S Queen, WC Hadden, and G Fisher. 1993. The Increasing Disparity in Mortality Between Socioeconomic Groups in the United States, 1960 and 1986. New England Journal of Medicine, 329(July 8):103-109. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199307083290207 64 1497 2190
Harris, MI, WC Hadden, WC Knowler, and PH Bennett. 1987. Prevalence of Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Plasma Glucose Levels in U.S. Population Aged 20-74 Yr. Diabetes 36 (4):523-34. doi: 10.2337/diab.36.4.523 54 1228 1736
Harris, MI, WC Hadden, WC Knowler, and PH Bennett. 1985. International Criteria for the Diagnosis of Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance. Diabetes Care 8 (6):562-7. doi: 10.2337/diacare.8.6.562 33 160 193

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