Sarah Burgard :: Publications

REFEREED ARTICLES
* Denotes a graduate student coauthor

In press Song, Shige, and Sarah A. Burgard. “Social Conditions and Infant Mortality in China: A Test of the Fundamental Cause Perspective.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

In press Zajacova, Anna and Sarah A. Burgard. “Shape of the BMI-Mortality Association by Cause of Death, Using Generalized Additive Models: NHIS 1986-2006.” Journal of Aging and Health.

In press Kershaw, Kiarri N., Anna V. Diez Roux, Sarah A. Burgard, Lynda D. Lisabeth, Mahasin S. Mujahid, and Amy J. Schultz. Metropolitan-level residential segregation and black-white disparities in hypertension. American Journal of Epidemiology

2011 Burgard, Sarah A. “The Needs of Others: Gender and Sleep Interruptions for Caregiving.” Social Forces 89(4): 1189-1215. (PDF)

2011 Zajacova, Anna, Jennifer Beam Dowd and Sarah A. Burgard. “Overweight Adults May Have the Lowest Mortality – Do They Have the Best Health?” American Journal of Epidemiology 173 (4): 430-437. (PDF)

2011 Sastry, Narayan and Sarah A. Burgard. “Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996.” Population Research and Policy Review. (PDF)

2010 Zajacova, Anna and Sarah A. Burgard. “Body Weight and Health: A Longitudinal Analysis by Sex and Race.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(1): 92-107. (PDF)

2009 Burgard, Sarah A., and *Jennifer A. Ailshire. “Putting Work to Bed: Stressful Experiences on the Job and Sleep Quality.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 50(4): 476-492. (PDF)

2009 *Nicklett, Emily, and Sarah A. Burgard. “Downward Social Mobility and Major Depressive Episodes among Latino and Asian American Immigrants to the United States.” American Journal of Epidemiology 170(6):793-801. (PDF)

2009 Burgard, Sarah A., Jennie E. Brand and James S. House. “Perceived Job Insecurity and Worker Health in the United States.” Social Science and Medicine 69(5): 777-785. (PDF)

2009 Burgard, Sarah A., and *Susan Lee-Rife. “Community Characteristics, Sexual Initiation, and Condom Use among Young Black South Africans.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 50(3): 293-309. (PDF)

2008 Song, Shige, and Sarah A. Burgard. “Does Son Preference Influence Children’s Growth in Height? A Comparative Study of Chinese and Filipino Children.” Population Studies 62(3): 305-320. (PDF)

2008 Brand, Jennie E. and Sarah A. Burgard. “Job Displacement and Social Participation: Findings across the Life Course of a Cohort of Joiners.” Social Forces 87(1): 211-242. (PDF)

2007 Burgard, Sarah A., Jennie E. Brand, and James S. House. “Toward a Better Estimation of the Effect of Job Loss on Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48(4): 369-384. (PDF)

2006 Burgard, Sarah A. and Donald J. Treiman. “Trends and Racial Differences in Infant Mortality in South Africa.” Social Science and Medicine 62(5): 1126-1137. (PDF)

2005 Burgard, Sarah A., Susan Cochran, and Vickie Mays. “Alcohol and Tobacco Use Patterns among Heterosexually and Homosexually Experienced California Women.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 77(1): 61-70. (PDF)

2005 Sastry, Narayan, and Sarah A. Burgard. “The Prevalence of Diarrheal Disease among Brazilian Children: Trends and Differentials from 1986 to 1996.” Social Science and Medicine 60(5): 923-935. (PDF)

2004 Burgard, Sarah A. “Race and Pregnancy-Related Care in Brazil and South Africa.” Social Science and Medicine 59(6): 1127-1146. (PDF)

2004 Burgard, Sarah A. “Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use in Late- and Post-apartheid South Africa.” Studies in Family Planning 35(2): 91-104. (PDF)

2002 Burgard, Sarah A. “Does Race Matter? Children’s Height in Brazil and South Africa.” Demography 39(4):763-790. (PDF)

BOOK CHAPTERS

In press Krueger, Patrick M. and Sarah A. Burgard. “Income, Occupations and Work.” International Handbook of Adult Mortality, edited by Richard Rogers and Eileen Crimmins. New York: Springer. (PDF)

2008 Price, Richard H., and Sarah A. Burgard. “The New Employment Contract and Worker Health in the United States.” Pp. 201-228 in Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy: Rethinking America's Approach to Improving Health, edited by Robert F. Schoeni, James S. House, George A. Kaplan, and Harold Pollack. New York: Russell Sage. (Link to Book)

2008 Kaplan, George, Nalini Ranjit, and Sarah A. Burgard. “Lifting Gates, Lengthening Lives: Did Civil Rights Policies Improve the Health of African-American Women in the 60s and 70s?” Pp. 143-170 in Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy: Rethinking America's Approach to Improving Health, edited by Robert F. Schoeni, James S. House, George A. Kaplan, and Harold Pollack. New York: Russell Sage. (Link to Book)

UNDER REVIEW

Burgard, Sarah A., *Jennifer A. Ailshire, and *N. Michelle Hughes. “The Night Shift: Sex Stratification of Sleep among American Adults.” (PDF)

Burgard, Sarah A. “The Needs of Others: Gender and Sleep Interruptions for Caregiving.” (PDF)

Ailshire, Jennifer A., Sarah A. Burgard, Patrick M. Krueger, and Elliot Friedman. “Sleep Duration and Mortality Risk: Do Social Factors Moderate the Association?”

Ailshire, Jennifer A. and Sarah A. Burgard. “‘Did You Sleep Well?’ An Examination of Family Ties, Relationship Quality, and Troubled Sleep.”

Burgard, Sarah A., Kristin S. Seefeldt, and *Sarah W. Johnson. “Housing instability and Health: Findings from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study.”

Story, William T., Sarah A. Burgard, Jody R. Lori, Fahmida Taleb, Nabeel Ashraf Ali, and D.M. Emdadul Hoque. “Decisions about Delivery Care in Rural Bangladesh: The Influence of Husbands’ Provision of Social Support and Perception of Social Norms.”