Thomas A. Glass
Johns Hopkins University
131 Papers
1.6K Citations
Thomas A. Glass is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 131 publications. Previous affiliations of Thomas A. Glass include Harvard University & Yale University.
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Papers
From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual model of how social networks impact health, and argue that networks operate at the behavioral level through four primary pathways: (1) provision of social support; (2) social influence; (3) on social engagement and attachment; and (4) access to resources and material goods.
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Social Disengagement and Incident Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons
TL;DR: Whether a global measure of social disengagement was associated with incident cognitive impairment in a large cohort of community-dwelling elderly persons followed for 12 years is determined.
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Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans
TL;DR: Social and productive activities that involve little or no enhancement of fitness lower the risk of all cause mortality as much as fitness activities do, suggesting that in addition to increased cardiopulmonary fitness, activity may confer survival benefits through psychosocial pathways.
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The built environment and obesity: A systematic review of the epidemiologic evidence
Jing Feng,Thomas A. Glass,Frank C. Curriero,Walter F. Stewart,Brian S. Schwartz,Brian S. Schwartz +5 more
TL;DR: A systematic search of the epidemiologic literature on built environment and obesity and identified 63 relevant papers, which were then evaluated for the quality of between-study evidence found very little between- Study similarity in methods in both types of approaches prevented estimation of pooled effects.
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Behavioral science at the crossroads in public health: extending horizons, envisioning the future
Thomas A. Glass,M J McAtee +1 more
TL;DR: This paper extends and modify the "stream of causation" metaphor along two axes: time, and levels of nested systems of social and biological organization, and proposes the concept of a risk regulator to advance the study of behavior and health in populations.
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