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Overview

James N. Laditka is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health professions, psychology, and social sciences, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology and general health professions. Their work also covers specialized areas such as safety research, speech and hearing, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The main topics explored in their research include family and disability support, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, workplace health and well-being, employment and welfare studies, disability education and employment, suicide and self-harm studies, and occupational health and safety research.

Recent publications by Laditka showcase a broad spectrum of research interests. Notable papers include:

  • Mental health risks of parents of children with developmental disabilities: A nationally representative study in the United States, 2020, published in Disability and Health Journal
  • Severe developmental disability and the transition to adulthood, 2020, published in Disability and Health Journal
  • Psychological distress is more common in some occupations and increases with job tenure: a thirty-seven year panel study in the United States, 2023, published in BMC Psychology
  • Suicide mortality rates in farm-related occupations and the agriculture industry in the United States, 2021, published in American Journal of Industrial Medicine
  • Work-related asthma in the USA: nationally representative estimates with extended follow-up, 2020, published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Their frequent coauthors include Sarah B. Laditka, Jessica Hoyle, Ahmed A. Arif, Oluwaseun Adeyemi, and Jan Warren-Findlow. These collaborations have contributed to a range of studies, particularly in disability, mental health, and occupational health.

James N. Laditka has contributed to publications in several journals, with multiple papers appearing in the Disability and Health Journal and Innovation in Aging. Other venues include BMC Psychology, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, and Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Adiposity as Mortality Predictors in Older Adults

    Xuemei Sui;Michael J. LaMonte;James N. Laditka;James W. Hardin

  • Access to health care and hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions.

    Zahid Ansari;James N. Laditka;Sarah B. Laditka

  • Effect of Exercise on Cognitive Performance in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Review of Intervention Trials and Recommendations for Public Health Practice and Research

    Mark Snowden;Lesley Steinman;Kara Mochan;Francine Grodstein

  • Older adults' perceived physical activity enablers and barriers: a multicultural perspective.

    Anna E. Mathews;Sarah B. Laditka;James N. Laditka;Sara Wilcox

  • Health care access in rural areas Evidence that hospitalization for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions in the United States may increase with the level of rurality

    James N. Laditka;Sarah B. Laditka;Janice C. Probst

  • More may be better: evidence of a negative relationship between physician supply and hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions.

    James N. Laditka;Sarah B. Laditka;Janice C. Probst

  • Attitudes About Aging Well Among a Diverse Group of Older Americans: Implications for Promoting Cognitive Health

    Sarah B. Laditka;Sara J. Corwin;James N. Laditka;Rui Liu

  • Hospital utilization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: health outcome disparities associated with race and ethnicity.

    James N Laditka;Sarah B Laditka;Melanie P Mastanduno

  • Prospective study of cardiorespiratory fitness and depressive symptoms in women and men

    Xuemei Sui;James N. Laditka;Timiothy S. Church;James W. Hardin

  • Adult Children Helping Older Parents Variations in Likelihood and Hours by Gender, Race, and Family Role

    James N. Laditka;Sarah B. Laditka

  • Race, Ethnicity and Hospitalization for Six Chronic Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in the USA

    James N. Laditka;Sarah B. Laditka

  • Nonoccupational physical activity by degree of urbanization and U.S. geographic region.

    Jared P. Reis;Heather R. Bowles;Barbara E. Ainsworth;Katrina D. Dubose

  • Patient perceptions of service quality in group versus solo practice clinics

    Herng Ching Lin;Sudha Xirasagar;James N. Laditka

  • ATTITUDES ABOUT AGING AND GENDER AMONG YOUNG, MIDDLE AGE, AND OLDER COLLEGE-BASED STUDENTS

    Sarah B. Laditka;Mary Fischer;James N. Laditka;David R. Segal

  • Perceptions and Beliefs About the Role of Physical Activity and Nutrition on Brain Health in Older Adults

    Sara Wilcox;Joseph R. Sharkey;Anna E. Mathews;James N. Laditka

  • Association between community health center and rural health clinic presence and county-level hospitalization rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: an analysis across eight US states

    Janice C Probst;James N Laditka;Sarah B Laditka

  • Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Predictor of Fatal and Nonfatal Stroke in Asymptomatic Women and Men

    Steven P. Hooker;Xuemei Sui;Natalie Colabianchi;John E. Vena

  • Providing Shelter to Nursing Home Evacuees in Disasters: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina

    Sarah B. Laditka;James N. Laditka;Sudha Xirasagar;Carol B. Cornman

  • Cardiorespiratory fitness as a predictor of dementia mortality in men and women.

    Rui Liu;Xuemei Sui;James N. Laditka;Timothy S. Church

  • Estimated Functional Capacity Predicts Mortality in Older Adults

    Xuemei Sui;James N. Laditka;James W. Hardin;Steven N. Blair

  • Physician supply, physician diversity, and outcomes of primary health care for older persons in the United States.

    James N Laditka

  • CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS AND ADIPOSITY AS MORTALITY PREDICTORS IN OLDER ADULTS

    X Sui;M J LaMonte;J Laditka

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela B. Friedman
Daniela B. Friedman University of South Carolina
Bei Wu
Bei Wu New York University
Sara Wilcox
Sara Wilcox University of South Carolina
Rebecca G. Logsdon
Rebecca G. Logsdon University of Washington
Joseph R. Sharkey
Joseph R. Sharkey Texas A&M University
Douglas A. Wolf
Douglas A. Wolf Syracuse University
Lynda A. Anderson
Lynda A. Anderson Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Barbara E. Ainsworth
Barbara E. Ainsworth Arizona State University
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lenore J. Launer
Lenore J. Launer National Institutes of Health

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