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  1. Can universal pre-kindergarten programs improve population health and longevity? Mechanisms, evidence, and policy implications

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  2. Cumulative social risk and risk of death from cardiovascular diseases and all-causes

    Article • International Journal of Cardiology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  3. Predictors of Health Among Refugee Adults from Myanmar and the Development of Their Children

    Article • Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  4. Timing and effect of a safe routes to school program on child pedestrian injury risk during school travel hours: Bayesian changepoint and difference-in-differences analysis

    Article • Injury Epidemiology, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  5. The Cost-Effectiveness of New York City’s Safe Routes to School Program

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, July 2014, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  6. The economic burden of disease by industry: Differences in quality‐adjusted life years and associated costs

    Article • American Journal of Industrial Medicine, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  7. Associations between Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Academic Performance in U.S. Undergraduates: A Secondary Analysis of the American College Health Association's National College Health Assessment II

    Article • American Journal of Health Promotion, May 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig, Adrienne Wald

  8. Intimate partner violence and current tobacco smoking in low- to middle-income countries: Individual participant meta-analysis of 231,892 women of reproductive age

    Article • Global Public Health, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  9. Measurement confounding affects the extent to which verbal IQ explains social gradients in mortality

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, April 2014, BMJ

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig, Paul Duberstein

  10. What China's experiment in community building can tell us about tackling health disparities

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  11. Impact of Welfare Reform on Mortality: An Evaluation of the Connecticut Jobs First Program, A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, March 2014, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  12. RETRACTED: Structural stigma and all-cause mortality in sexual minority populations

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  13. Anti-Gay Prejudice and All-Cause Mortality Among Heterosexuals in the United States

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, February 2014, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  14. Emotion suppression and mortality risk over a 12-year follow-up

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig, Paul Duberstein

  15. When Overweight Is the Normal Weight: An Examination of Obesity Using a Social Media Internet Database

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2013, PLOS

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  16. Gender differences in cardiovascular mortality by C-reactive protein level in the United States: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III

    Article • American Heart Journal, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  17. Welfare Programs That Target Workforce Participation May Negatively Affect Mortality

    Article • Health Affairs, June 2013, Health Affairs

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  18. Do the psychosocial risks associated with television viewing increase mortality? Evidence from the 2008 General Social Survey–National Death Index dataset

    Article • Annals of Epidemiology, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  19. The relationship between five different measures of structural social capital, medical examination outcomes, and mortality

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  20. Gender Differences in Material, Psychological, and Social Domains of the Income Gradient in Mortality: Implications for Policy

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  21. Structural Minority Stress and All-Cause Mortality in Sexual Minority Populations

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  22. Racial Disparities in Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Associated With Diabetes and Visual Impairment

    Article • Diabetes Care, July 2012, American Diabetes Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  23. Erratum to “Blood and urine levels of long half-life toxicants by nativity among immigrants to the United States” [Sci. Total Environ. 412–413 (2011) 109–113]

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  24. The effects of a psychosocial dimension of socioeconomic position on survival: occupational prestige and mortality among US working adults

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, March 2012, Wiley

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  25. The Health of Immigrants to New York City From Mainland China: Evidence From the New York Health Examination and Nutrition Survey

    Article • Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  26. Blood and urine levels of long half-life toxicants by nativity among immigrants to the United States

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  27. The general social survey-national death index: an innovative new dataset for the social sciences

    Article • BMC Research Notes, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  28. We All Want It, but We Don't Know What It Is: Toward a Standard of Affordability for Health Insurance Premiums

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, October 2011, Duke University Press

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  29. Between “Voluntary Migrants” and War Refugees: The Health of the Shan Burmese Migrant Workers in Northern Thailand

    Article • Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  30. Arthritis, Occupational Class, and the Aging US Workforce

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, September 2011, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  31. Arthritis, Occupational Class, and the Aging US Workforce

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, September 2011, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  32. Cost-Effectiveness Model for Youth EFNEP Programs: What Do We Measure and How Do We Do It?

    Article • Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  33. The Effect of Small Class Sizes on Mortality Through Age 29 Years: Evidence From a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, May 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  34. The Effect of an Early Education Program on Adult Health: The Carolina Abecedarian Project Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, March 2011, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  35. Does Racism Affect Health? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, February 2011, Duke University Press

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  36. Quality Of Life And Medical Costs: The Authors Reply

    Article • Health Affairs, January 2011, Health Affairs

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  37. Health Care Access and Utilization among Children of Single Working and Nonworking Mothers in the United States

    Article • International Journal of Health Services, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  38. The Effect of Class Size in Grades K-3 on Adult Earnings, Employment, and Disability Status: Evidence from a Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, January 2011, Project Muse

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  39. The Psychosocial Health of Shan Children in Northwest Thailand

    Article • Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  40. What Changes In Survival Rates Tell Us About US Health Care

    Article • Health Affairs, October 2010, Health Affairs

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  41. Working with Arthritis: The Burden of Disease by Occupational Group

    Article • Annals of Epidemiology, September 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  42. The Relative Health Burden of Selected Social and Behavioral Risk Factors in the United States: Implications for Policy

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, September 2010, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  43. The Income-Associated Burden of Disease in the United States

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  44. The Social Costs of Childhood Lead Exposure in the Post–Lead Regulation Era

    Article • Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, September 2009, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  45. The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on the Neural Substrates Associated with Pleasure

    Article • The Open Neuroimaging Journal, August 2009, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig, Michael Silverman

  46. Sensory Impairment Among Older US Workers

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, August 2009, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  47. Effects of a Prekindergarten Educational Intervention on Adult Health: 37-Year Follow-Up Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, August 2009, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  48. Obesity‐associated stigma and physiological markers of stress: evidence from the Dominican Republic

    Article • Stress and Health, December 2008, Wiley

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  49. Epilepsy Surgery for Pharmacoresistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

    Article • JAMA, December 2008, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  50. Cost-Effectiveness of Needle and Syringe Exchange for the Prevention of HIV in New York City

    Article • Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  51. Corrigendum to: “The income-associated burden of disease in the United States” [Soc. Sci. Med. 61 (2005) 2018–2026]

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  52. The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease

    Article • BMC Public Health, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  53. I Think Therefore I Am: Perceived Ideal Weight as a Determinant of Health

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, March 2008, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  54. Health Consequences of Declining Incomes

    Article • JAMA, February 2008, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  55. Health Selection vs. Causation in the Income Gradient: What Can We Learn from Graphical Trends?

    Article • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, January 2008, Project Muse

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  56. The public returns to public educational investments in African-American males

    Article • Economics of Education Review, December 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  57. Health and Economic Benefits of Reducing the Number of Students per Classroom in US Primary Schools

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, November 2007, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  58. Socioeconomic status as an independent predictor of physiological biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: Evidence from NHANES

    Article • Preventive Medicine, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  59. Gender and the Burden of Disease Attributable to Obesity

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, September 2006, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  60. Ascertaining variation in hospitalization risk among immigrants using small area analysis

    Article • Preventive Medicine, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  61. The burden of disease associated with being African-American in the United States and the contribution of socio-economic status

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, May 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  62. The Cost-Effectiveness of Health Insurance

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, November 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  63. The income-associated burden of disease in the United States

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, November 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  64. REDISTRIBUTION AND HEALTH

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, August 2005, American Public Health Association

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  65. Managing Febrile Respiratory Illnesses during a Hypothetical SARS Outbreak

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, February 2005, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  66. The cost effectiveness of health insurance

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  67. Vaccination practices in U.S. emergency departments, 1992–2000

    Article • Vaccine, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  68. The cost-effectiveness of ivermectin vs. albendazole in the presumptive treatment of strongyloidiasis in immigrants to the United States

    Article • Epidemiology and Infection, November 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  69. Comparison of small-area analysis techniques for estimating county-level outcomes

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, June 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  70. The Costs and Outcomes of Multifaceted Interventions Designed to Improve the Care of Congestive Heart Failure in the Inpatient Setting: A Review of the Literature

    Article • Medical Care Research and Review, September 2003, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  71. Global Drug-Resistance Patterns and the Management of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Immigrants to the United States

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, December 2002, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  72. Health Status and Hospital Utilization of Recent Immigrants to New York City

    Article • Preventive Medicine, September 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  73. Measure-Dependent Variation in Burden of Disease Estimates

    Article • Medical Care, March 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  74. Increased risk of heart disease and stroke among foreign-born females residing in the United States

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, January 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  75. Cost‐Effectiveness of Vaccination versus Treatment of Influenza in Healthy Adolescents and Adults

    Article • Clinical Infectious Diseases, December 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  76. The Cost-Effectiveness of Public Postsecondary Education Subsidies

    Article • Preventive Medicine, February 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig

  77. The Cost Effectiveness of Strategies for the Treatment of Intestinal Parasites in Immigrants

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, March 1999, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Dr Peter Alex Muennig