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Overview

Frederick J. Zimmerman is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of health professions and social sciences, with a particular focus on health disparities, homelessness, healthcare policy, food security, and urban studies.

Their work is published extensively across various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • JAMA Network Open
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Milbank Quarterly
  • JAMA Pediatrics
  • Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Zimmerman's research fields cover broadly:

  • Health Professions
  • Social Sciences

Within these main fields, the subfields they explore are:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

The topics addressed in their body of work include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research

Frequent collaborators of Zimmerman are:

  • Nathaniel Anderson
  • Katherine L. Chen
  • Kristen R. Choi
  • Daniel Eisenberg
  • Kathryn M. Leifheit

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Estimation of US Children's Educational Attainment and Years of Life Lost Associated With Primary School Closures During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic" (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • "Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality" (2021, American Journal of Epidemiology)
  • "How is the COVID-19 pandemic shaping transportation access to health care?" (2021, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives)
  • "Variation in State-Level Eviction Moratorium Protections and Mental Health Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021, JAMA Network Open)
  • "Association of Promoting Housing Affordability and Stability With Improved Health Outcomes" (2022, JAMA Network Open)

Best Publications

  • A Population-Based Study

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Jeffrey A. Richards;Frederick J. Zimmerman;Michelle M. Garrison

  • Early Television Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems in Children

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Frederick J. Zimmerman;Frederick J. Zimmerman;David L. DiGiuseppe;Carolyn A. McCarty

  • Asset smoothing, consumption smoothing and the reproduction of inequality under risk and subsistence constraints

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Michael R. Carter

  • Children’s Television Viewing and Cognitive Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis of National Data

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Associations between media viewing and language development in children under age 2 years.

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Dimitri A. Christakis;Andrew N. Meltzoff

  • Teaching by Listening: The Importance of Adult-Child Conversations to Language Development

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Jill Gilkerson;Jeffrey A. Richards;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Television and DVD/Video Viewing in Children Younger Than 2 Years

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Dimitri A. Christakis;Andrew N. Meltzoff

  • Socioeconomic status, depression disparities, and financial strain: what lies behind the income-depression relationship?

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Wayne Katon

  • Association of Lower Continuity of Care With Greater Risk of Emergency Department Use and Hospitalization in Children

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Loren Mell;Thomas D. Koepsell;Frederick J. Zimmerman

  • Associations between content types of early media exposure and subsequent attentional problems

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Audible Television and Decreased Adult Words, Infant Vocalizations, and Conversational Turns: A Population-Based Study

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Jill Gilkerson;Jeffrey A. Richards;Frederick J. Zimmerman

  • Associations of television content type and obesity in children.

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Janice F. Bell

  • Television, video, and computer game usage in children under 11 years of age

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Beth E. Ebel;Frederick P. Rivara;Frederick J. Zimmerman

  • Display of Health Risk Behaviors on MySpace by Adolescents: Prevalence and Associations

    Megan Andreas Moreno;Malcolm R. Parks;Frederick J. Zimmerman;Tara E. Brito

  • Television viewing, computer use, obesity, and adiposity in US preschool children

    Jason A Mendoza;Fred J Zimmerman;Dimitri A Christakis

  • Shortened nighttime sleep duration in early life and subsequent childhood obesity.

    Janice F. Bell;Frederick J. Zimmerman

  • Birth outcomes among urban African-American women: a multilevel analysis of the role of racial residential segregation.

    Janice F. Bell;Frederick J. Zimmerman;Gunnar R. Almgren;Jonathan D. Mayer

  • Early Cognitive Stimulation, Emotional Support, and Television Watching as Predictors of Subsequent Bullying Among Grade-School Children

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Gwen M. Glew;Dimitri A. Christakis;Wayne Katon

  • Social and economic determinants of disparities in professional help-seeking for child mental health problems: evidence from a national sample.

    Frederick J. Zimmerman

  • Violent Television Viewing During Preschool Is Associated With Antisocial Behavior During School Age

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Frederick J. Zimmerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan E. Fielding
Jonathan E. Fielding University of California, Los Angeles
Carolyn A. McCarty
Carolyn A. McCarty Seattle Children's Hospital
Onyebuchi A. Arah
Onyebuchi A. Arah University of California, Los Angeles
Craig Evan Pollack
Craig Evan Pollack Johns Hopkins University
Ann Vander Stoep
Ann Vander Stoep University of Washington
Deborah A. Cohen
Deborah A. Cohen Kaiser Permanente
Neal Halfon
Neal Halfon University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington
Rashmita S. Mistry
Rashmita S. Mistry University of California, Los Angeles
Carles Muntaner
Carles Muntaner University of Toronto

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