Research focusing on socioeconomic disparities in health and health behavior
Dr. Tucker-Seeley’s substantive research interests are in three areas. First, he is interested in financial well-being across the chronic disease continuum from prevention to end-of-life care. His work focuses on the measurement of financial well-being (e.g. financial hardship and financial distress) as well as investigating the potentially bidirectional relationship between financial well-being concepts and health outcomes across the chronic disease continuum. Second, Dr. Tucker-Seeley is interested in the measurement of the neighborhood environment in population health research. More specifically, his work in this area focuses on the measurement of neighborhood services and the impact of the neighborhood service/retail environment on health and health behavior. Third, Dr. Tucker-Seeley is interested in measuring and reporting health disparities, as well as efforts to reduce health disparities and create health equity across levels of government (local, state, federal).
Reginald Tucker-Seeley, ScD
Edward L. Schneider Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Email: tuckerse@usc.edu
Office Location: GER 228E
” The association between self-rated health and socioeconomic circumstances extends beyond the traditional measures of income, education, and occupation. “
Projects
- Perspectives of African-American women missing from aging-in-place researchon February 27, 2021
Current literature is not sufficiently inclusive of the issues African-American women face as they […]
- Coronavirus kills black people at twice the rate as white people: Here’s what we can do about it (Los Angeles Times)on June 8, 2020
Los Angeles Times quoted Reginald Tucker-Seeley of the USC Leonard Davis School on how the COVID-19 […]
- COVID-19 Recovery Challenges Include Possible Financial Hardshipson April 27, 2020
For many Americans, the extension or end of social distancing measures may mean the start of […]