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76
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501
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Clyde Hertzman was affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spanned several areas within medicine and social sciences, with particular focus on public health and child development.

The primary fields of study in Hertzman's work included Medicine and Social Sciences. Subfields addressed were Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics researched encompassed Birth, Development, and Health; Health disparities and outcomes; and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet.

Frequent collaboration was noted with co-author Chris Power.

  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Health
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

  • Chris Power

In 2006, Hertzman was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada under the Academy of Science, reflecting a formal acknowledgment of their professional contributions within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics.

    Daniel P. Keating;Clyde Hertzman

  • How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health.

    Clyde Hertzman;Tom Boyce

  • The biological embedding of early experience and its effects on health in adulthood.

    Clyde Hertzman

  • Neonatal outcomes after prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants and maternal depression using population-based linked health data.

    Tim F. Oberlander;William Warburton;Shaila Misri;Jaafar Aghajanian

  • Socioeconomic factors, material inequalities, and perceived control in self-rated health: cross-sectional data from seven post-communist countries.

    Martin Bobak;Hynek Pikhart;Richard Rose;Clyde Hertzman

  • Epigenetic Vestiges of Early Developmental Adversity: Childhood Stress Exposure and DNA Methylation in Adolescence.

    Marilyn J. Essex;W. Thomas Boyce;Clyde Hertzman;Lucia L. Lam

  • Socioeconomic factors, perceived control and self-reported health in Russia. A cross-sectional survey.

    Martin Bobak;Hynek Pikhart;Clyde Hertzman;Richard Rose

  • Associations with early-life socio-economic position in adult DNA methylation

    Nada Borghol;Matthew Suderman;Wendy L McArdle;Ariane Racine

  • Early child development: a powerful equalizer

    Irwin Lg;Siddiqi A;Hertzman C

  • Social and biological pathways linking early life and adult disease

    Chris Power;Clyde Hertzman

  • The social determinants of early child development: An overview

    Stefania Maggi;Lori J. Irwin;Arjumand Siddiqi;Clyde Hertzman

  • Child development and long-term outcomes: A population health perspective and summary of successful interventions

    C. Hertzman;M. Wiens

  • Parkinson's disease: a case-control study of occupational and environmental risk factors

    Clyde Hertzman;Michele Wiens;David Bowering;Barry Snow

  • Birth weight, childhood socioeconomic environment, and cognitive development in the 1958 British birth cohort study

    Barbara J M H Jefferis;Chris Power;Clyde Hertzman

  • Promoting Children’s Prosocial Behaviors in School: Impact of the “Roots of Empathy” Program on the Social and Emotional Competence of School-Aged Children

    Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl;Veronica Smith;Anat Zaidman-Zait;Clyde Hertzman

  • Neighborhood income and physical and social disorder in Canada: associations with young children's competencies.

    Dafna E. Kohen;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Tama Leventhal;Clyde Hertzman

  • APOCALYPSE NO: Population Aging and The Future of Health Care Systems

    Robert G. Evans;Kimberlyn M. McGrail;Steven G. Morgan;Morris L. Barer

  • Using an interactive framework of society and lifecourse to explain self-rated health in early adulthood.

    Clyde Hertzman;Chris Power;Sharon Matthews;Orly Manor

  • Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in British Columbia.

    K Mcgrail;B Green;M L Barer;R G Evans

  • Predictors of Low Back Pain Onset in a Prospective British Study

    Chris Power;John Frank;Clyde Hertzman;Gill Schierhout

  • THE ASSOCIATION OF CUTANEOUS MALIGNANT MELANOMA WITH THE USE OF SUNBEDS AND SUNLAMPS

    Stephen D. Walter;Loraine D. Marrett;Lynn From;Clyde Hertzman

Frequent Co-Authors

Aleck Ostry
Aleck Ostry University of Victoria
Robert G. Evans
Robert G. Evans University of British Columbia
Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl
Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl University of British Columbia
Bruno D. Zumbo
Bruno D. Zumbo University of British Columbia
Shelley Hymel
Shelley Hymel University of British Columbia
Matthew Suderman
Matthew Suderman University of Bristol
Lawrence W. Green
Lawrence W. Green University of California, San Francisco
Joanne Weinberg
Joanne Weinberg University of British Columbia
W. Thomas Boyce
W. Thomas Boyce University of California, San Francisco
Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University

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