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Richard G. Rogers is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans several specialized areas including sociology and political science, health, general health professions, clinical psychology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The research topics addressed by Rogers prominently include health disparities and outcomes, migration, health and trauma, religion, spirituality, and psychology, as well as religion, society, and development. Additional focus areas are racial and ethnic identity research, crime patterns and interventions, and musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

Rogers has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in UNC Libraries, Demographic Research, Journal of Pain, Biodemography and Social Biology, and Preventive Medicine.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • The Relationship Between Education and Pain Among Adults Aged 30-49 in the United States (2020, Journal of Pain)
  • Race/ethnicity, maternal educational attainment, and infant mortality in the United States (2021, Biodemography and Social Biology)
  • Exceptional mortality risk among police-identified young black male gang members (2020, Preventive Medicine)
  • Cognition and Diabetes: Examining Sex Differences Using a Longitudinal Sample of Older Adults (2022, Research on Aging)
  • Lung cancer mortality among never-smokers in the United States: estimating smoking-attributable mortality with nationally representative data (2020, Annals of Epidemiology)

Rogers has also published a book titled Religion, Families, and Health with Rutgers University Press in 2020.

Frequent collaborators in Rogers's work include:

  • Robert A. Hummer
  • Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Christopher G. Ellison
  • Samuel H. Fishman
  • Andrea M. Tilstra

Best Publications

  • Religious involvement and U.S. adult mortality

    Robert A. Hummer;Richard G. Rogers;Charles B. Nam;Christopher G. Ellison

  • Living and Dying in the USA: Behavioral, Health, and Social Differentials of Adult Mortality

    Ichiro Kawachi;Richard G. Rogers;Robert A. Hummer;Charles B. Nam

  • Ethnicity and Mortality in the United States: Individual and Community Correlates

    Felicia B. LeClere;Richard G. Rogers;Kimberley D. Peters

  • Nativity, duration of residence, and the health of Hispanic adults in the United States

    Youngtae Cho;W. Parker Frisbie;Robert A. Hummer;Richard G. Rogers

  • Social, behavioral, and biological factors, and sex differences in mortality.

    Richard G. Rogers;Bethany G. Everett;Jarron M. Saint Onge;Patrick M. Krueger

  • Neighborhood Social Context and Racial Differences in Women's Heart Disease Mortality

    Felicia B. Leclere;Richard G. Rogers;Kimberley Peters

  • Extending epidemiologic transition theory: a new stage.

    Richard G. Rogers;Robert Hackenberg

  • Living and dying in the U.S.A.: sociodemographic determinants of death among blacks and whites.

    Richard G. Rogers

  • Race/ethnicity nativity and U.S. adult mortality.

    Hummer Ra;Rogers Rg;Nam Cb;LeClere Fb

  • Trends in the Educational Gradient of U.S. Adult Mortality From 1986 Through 2006 by Race, Gender, and Age Group

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Robert A. Hummer;Mark D. Hayward;Hyeyoung Woo

  • The effects of family composition, health, and social support linkages on mortality.

    Richard G. Rogers

  • Race Differentials in Obesity: The Impact of Place

    Jason D. Boardman;Jarron M. Saint Onge;Richard G. Rogers;Justin T. Denney

  • Adult Suicide Mortality in the United States: Marital Status, Family Size, Socioeconomic Status, and Differences by Sex

    Justin T. Denney;Richard G. Rogers;Patrick M. Krueger;Tim Wadsworth

  • Marital Happiness, Marital Status, Health, and Longevity

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

  • Sociodemographic differentials in adult mortality: a review of analytic approaches

    Robert A. Hummer;Richard G. Rogers;Isaac W. Eberstein

  • The Enduring Association between Education and Mortality: The Role of Widening and Narrowing Disparities

    Richard Miech;Fred Pampel;Jinyoung Kim;Richard G. Rogers

  • Religious involvement and adult mortality in the United States: review and perspective.

    Robert A. Hummer;Christopher G. Ellison;Richard G. Rogers;Benjamin E. Moulton

  • Longer Life but Worse Health? Measurement and Dynamics

    Andrei Rogers;Richard G. Rogers;Alain Belanger

  • A multistate analysis of active life expectancy.

    Rogers A;Rogers Rg;Branch Lg

  • Religious Involvement and Mortality Risk among African American Adults

    Christopher G. Ellison;Robert Allen Hummer;Shannon Cormier;Richard G. Rogers

  • International handbook of adult mortality

    Richard G. Rogers;Eileen M. Crimmins

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Hummer
Robert A. Hummer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patrick M. Krueger
Patrick M. Krueger University of Colorado Denver
Jason D. Boardman
Jason D. Boardman University of Colorado Boulder
Bethany G. Everett
Bethany G. Everett University of Utah
Anna Zajacova
Anna Zajacova University of Western Ontario
Fred C. Pampel
Fred C. Pampel University of Colorado Boulder
Andrei Rogers
Andrei Rogers University of Colorado Boulder
Christopher G. Ellison
Christopher G. Ellison The University of Texas at San Antonio
Dudley L. Poston
Dudley L. Poston Texas A&M University
Stefanie Mollborn
Stefanie Mollborn University of Colorado Boulder

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