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Anna Zajacova is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with 77 and 31 publications respectively. Within these fields, their work focuses on several subfields including Pharmacology, General Health Professions, Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's main research topics encompass a range of issues related to health and pain, specifically:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use

Anna Zajacova has contributed to notable publication venues, with their work frequently appearing in:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

The scientist's recent significant papers include:

  • "Pain Trends Among American Adults, 2002-2018: Patterns, Disparities, and Correlates," 2021, Demography
  • "Changes in health behaviours during early COVID-19 and socio-demographic disparities: a cross-sectional analysis," 2020, Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • "Sociology of Chronic Pain," 2021, Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Other influential papers in the broader context of their research field, authored by collaborators or relevant to their topics, are:

  • "US State Policies, Politics, and Life Expectancy," 2020, Milbank Quarterly
  • "A global study of pain prevalence across 52 countries: examining the role of country-level contextual factors," 2021, Pain

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Anna Zajacova include:

  • Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk
  • Zachary Zimmer
  • Jennifer Karas Montez
  • Mark D. Hayward
  • Patrick Denice

Best Publications

  • Self-Efficacy, Stress, and Academic Success in College.

    Anna Zajacova;Scott M. Lynch;Thomas J. Espenshade

  • The Relationship Between Education and Health: Reducing Disparities Through a Contextual Approach

    Anna Zajacova;Elizabeth M. Lawrence

  • Does the predictive power of self-rated health for subsequent mortality risk vary by socioeconomic status in the US?

    Jennifer Beam Dowd;Anna Zajacova

  • Reliability of Self-rated Health in US Adults

    Anna Zajacova;Jennifer Beam Dowd

  • Gender differences in hypertension and hypertension awareness among young adults.

    Bethany Everett;Anna Zajacova

  • A global study of pain prevalence across 52 countries: examining the role of country-level contextual factors.

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  • US State Policies, Politics, and Life Expectancy

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Jason Beckfield;Julene Kemp Cooney;Jacob M. Grumbach

  • Marital Happiness, Marital Status, Health, and Longevity

    Elizabeth M. Lawrence;Richard G. Rogers;Anna Zajacova;Tim Wadsworth

  • Does Self-Rated Health Mean the Same Thing Across Socioeconomic Groups? Evidence From Biomarker Data

    Jennifer Beam Dowd;Anna Zajacova

  • Early origins of health disparities: burden of infection, health, and socioeconomic status in U.S. children

    Jennifer Beam Dowd;Anna Zajacova;Allison Aiello

  • Pain Trends Among American Adults, 2002-2018: Patterns, Disparities, and Correlates.

    Anna Zajacova;Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk;Zachary Zimmer

  • Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova;Mark D. Hayward;Steven H. Woolf

  • Predictors of Inflammation in U.S. Children Aged 3–16 Years

    Jennifer Beam Dowd;Anna Zajacova;Allison E. Aiello

  • Gender and the structure of self-rated health across the adult life span.

    Anna Zajacova;Snehalata Huzurbazar;Megan Todd

  • Trends in Mortality Risk by Education Level and Cause of Death Among US White Women From 1986 to 2006

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova

  • Employment and income losses among cancer survivors: Estimates from a national longitudinal survey of American families.

    Anna Zajacova;Jennifer B. Dowd;Robert F. Schoeni;Robert B. Wallace

  • Changes in health behaviours during early COVID-19 and socio-demographic disparities: a cross-sectional analysis.

    Anna Zajacova;Anthony Jehn;Matthew Stackhouse;Patrick Denice

  • Socioeconomic and Race/Ethnic Patterns in Persistent Infection Burden Among U.S. Adults

    Anna Zajacova;Jennifer B. Dowd;Allison E. Aiello

  • Education, gender, and mortality: does schooling have the same effect on mortality for men and women in the US?

    Anna Zajacova

  • Education, race/ethnicity, and multimorbidity among adults aged 30-64 in the National Health Interview Survey.

    Vicki Johnson-Lawrence;Anna Zajacova;Rodlescia Sneed

  • Explaining the Widening Education Gap in Mortality among U.S. White Women

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova

  • Educational degrees and adult mortality risk in the United States.

    Richard G. Rogers;Bethany G. Everett;Anna Zajacova;Robert A. Hummer

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Hayward
Mark Hayward University of Sussex
Richard G. Rogers
Richard G. Rogers University of Colorado Boulder
Sarah A. Burgard
Sarah A. Burgard University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Zachary Zimmer
Zachary Zimmer Mount Saint Vincent University
Robert A. Hummer
Robert A. Hummer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tenko Raykov
Tenko Raykov Michigan State University
Bethany G. Everett
Bethany G. Everett University of Utah
Robert F. Schoeni
Robert F. Schoeni University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
George A. Marcoulides
George A. Marcoulides University of California, Santa Barbara
Laura B. Zahodne
Laura B. Zahodne University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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