Lynne Cossman

'Jeralynn Sittig Cossman, also known as Lynn Crossman,[1] is Professor and head of the Department of Sociology at West Virginia University. She used to be Department Head and Chair in the department of sociology at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. Dr. Cossman was also a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University

She has research and teaching interests in medical sociology, demography, and health services research. She works with the Social Science Research Center’s (SSRC) Mississippi Health Policy Research Center at Mississippi State University as a Research Fellow, examining issues related to health assessment, prevention, and social epidemiology. She is also the Director of the newly formed Northeast Mississippi Area Health Education Center.

Dr. Cossman received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Florida State University. She has published a number of articles in major journals, including

American Journal of Public Health,[2][3] Social Problems,[4] AIDS Education and Prevention, Health and Place, The International Journal of Health Geographics,[5] The Journal of Economic and Social Measurement,[6] Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying, Population Research and Policy Review,[7][8][9] Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Spectrum,[10] Journal of Criminal Justice

References

  1. ↑ Official University Web page at WVU
  2. ↑ Cosby AG, Thornton-Neaves T, Cossman RE, Cossman JS, James WL, Feierabend N, Mirvis D, Jones CA, Farrigan T (2008). "Preliminary evidence for an emerging nonmetropolitan mortality penalty in the United States". American Journal of Public Health. 98 (2): 1470–2. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.123778. PMC 2446448Freely accessible. PMID 18556611.
  3. ↑ Cossman JS, Cossman RE, James WL, Campbell CR, Blanchard TC, Cosby AG (2007). "Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States". American Journal of Public Health. 97 (12): 2148–50. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2006.093112. PMC 2089111Freely accessible. PMID 17538052.
  4. ↑ Street D, Cossman JS (2006). "Greatest Generation or Greedy Geezers? A Life Course Approach to Social Spending Preferences". Social Problems. 53 (1): 75–96. doi:10.1525/sp.2006.53.1.75.
  5. ↑ James WL, Cossman RE, Cossman JS, Campbell CR, Blanchard TC (2004). "A Brief Visual Primer for the Mapping of Mortality Trend Data" (PDF). The International Journal of Health Geographics. 3 (7).
  6. ↑ Blanchard TC, Levin ML, Cossman JS (2004). "Data Sources for Hierarchical Models of Individual Mortality Incomes". Journal of Economic and Social Measurement. 29 (4): 473–85.
  7. ↑ Cossman RE; Cossman JS; Cosby AG; Reavis, R (2008). "Reconsidering the Rural-Urban Continuum in Rural Health Research: A Test of Stable Relationships Using Mortality as a Health Measure". Population Research and Policy Review. 27 (4): 459–476. doi:10.1007/s11113-008-9069-6.
  8. ↑ James WL, Cossman JS (2007). "Does Regional Variation Affect Ecological Mortality Research? An Examination of Mortality, Income Inequality and Health Infrastructure in Mississippi Delta". Population Research and Policy Review. 25 (2): 175–195. doi:10.1007/s11113-006-9003-8.
  9. ↑ Blanchard TC, Cossman JS, Levin ML (2004). "Multiple Meanings of Minority Concentration: Incorporating Contextual Explanations into the Analysis of Individual Level US Black Mortality Outcomes". Population Research and Policy Review. 23 (3): 309–326. doi:10.1023/B:POPU.0000034080.72592.42.
  10. ↑ Jimenez A, Cossman JS (2006). "When People Died: An Examination of Historic Mortality Seasonality Using an Historic African American Population". Sociological Spectrum. 26 (2): 149–181. doi:10.1080/02732170500444601.

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