Rooks, Ronica, Ph.D. — Assistant Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests
Courses Taught
- Social Epidemiology
- Health Disparities
- Sociology of Health and Health Care
- Social Problems
Education
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Ph.D., Sociology
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, M.A., Sociology
- St. Mary’s College, St. Mary's City, MD, B.A., Sociology/Anthropology and Economics
Selected Publications
Referred Publications, Invited Chapters, and Other Contributions
Sudore, Rebecca, Kristine Yaffe, Suzanne Satterfield, Tamara Harris, Kala Mehta, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Anne Newman, C. Rosano, Ronica Rooks, Susan Rubin, Hilsa Ayonayon, and D. Schillinger. 2006. “Limited Literacy and Mortality in the Elderly: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study.” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21, 8, 806-812.
Sudore, Rebecca L., Kala M. Mehta, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Tamara B. Harris, Anne B. Newman, Suzanne Satterfield, C. Rosano, Ronica N. Rooks, Susan M. Rubin, Hilsa N. Ayonayon, and Kristine Yaffe. 2006. “Limited Literacy in Older People and Disparities in Health and Health Care Access.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 54, 5, 770-776.
Koster, Annemarie, Hans Bosma, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Anne B. Newman, Tamara B. Harris, Jacques Th.M. van Eijk, Gertrudis I.J.M. Kempen, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Karen C. Johnson, Ronica N. Rooks, Hilsa N. Ayonayon, Susan M. Rubin, and Stephen B. Kritchevsky. “Association of Inflammatory Markers with Socio-economic Status.” 2006. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 61, 3, 284-290.
Koster, Annemarie, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Hans Bosma, Gertrudis I.J.M. Kempen, Anne B. Newman, Suzanne Satterfield, H.H. Atkinson, Hilsa N. Ayonayon, C. Rosano, Kristine Yaffe, Tamara B. Harris, Ronica N. Rooks, Jacques Th.M. van Eijk, and Stephen B. Kritchevsky. 2005. “Socio-economic Differences in Cognitive Decline and the Role of Biomedical Factors.” Annals of Epidemiology, 15, 8, 564-571.
Koster, Annemarie, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Hans Bosma, Gertrudis I.J.M. Kempen, Tamara B. Harris, Anne B. Newman, Ronica N. Rooks, Susan M. Rubin, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Jacques Th.M. van Eijk, and Stephen B. Kritchevsky. 2005. “Is There a Biomedical Explanation for Socio-economic Differences in Incident Mobility Limitation?” Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 60, 8, 1022-1027.
Mehta, Kala M., Eleanor M. Simonsick, Ronica Rooks, Anne B. Newman, Sandra K. Pope, Susan M. Rubin, and Kristine Yaffe. 2004. “Black and White Differences in Cognitive Function Test Scores: What Explains the Difference?” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 52, 12, 2120-2127.
Lee, Jung Sun, Robert J. Weyant, Patricia Corby, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Tamara B. Harris, Ronica Rooks, Susan M. Rubin, and Anne B. Newman. 2004. “Edentulism and Nutritional Status in a Biracial Sample of Well-functioning, Community-dwelling Elderly: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 79, 2, 295-302.
Rooks, Ronica N. and Diane R. Brown. 2003. “Closing the Gap in Breast Cancer Screening Among Older African-American and Caucasian Women.” Phylon: The Clark Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture, 50, 1-2, 127-143 (Special issue on Health Care Disparities).
de Rekeneire, Nathalie, Ronica N. Rooks, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Ronald I. Shorr, Lewis H. Kuller, Anne V. Schwartz, and Tamara B. Harris. 2003. “Racial Differences in Glycemic Control in a Well-functioning Older Diabetic Population: Findings from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study.” Diabetes Care, 26, 7, 1986-1992.
Rooks, Ronica N., Eleanor M. Simonsick, Toni Miles, Anne Newman, Stephen Kritchevsky, Richard Schulz, and Tamara Harris. 2002. “The Association of Race and Socioeconomic Status with Cardiovascular Disease Indicators in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 57B, 4, S247-S256.
Rooks, Ronica N. 2001. “Racial Differences in Self-Reported Health among the Elderly: Biological or Social?” African American Research Perspectives, 7, 1, 214-225.
Robinson, John, Bart Landry, and Ronica Rooks. 1998. “Time and the Melting Pot,” American Demographics, 20, 6, 18-23.
Rooks, Ronica. 1993. “Motherhood: Growing More Common Among Never-Married Women,” Population Today, November. Population Reference Bureau.
Chapters and Books
Rooks, Ronica N. and Keith Whitfield. 2004. “Health Disparities among African Americans: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives,” chapter in Keith Whitfield’s edited, Closing the Gap: Improving, the Health of Minority Elders in the New Millennium. Washington, D.C.: The Gerontological Society of America.
Kramarow, Ellen, Harold Lentzner, Ronica Rooks, Julie Weeks, and Sharon Saydah. 1999. Health and Aging Chartbook, Health, United States, 1999. NCHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Freid, Virginia M., Diane M. Makuc, and Ronica N. Rooks. 1998. “Ambulatory Health Care Visits by Children: Principal Diagnosis and Place of Visit.” Vital and Health Statistics, Series 13, No. 137, May. NCHS, CDC.
Rooks, Ronica N. and John P. Robinson. 1997. “Status and Racial Differences in Time Use,” Ch. 15 in John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey’s, Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time.” University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.