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Patrick Krueger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Email: Patrick Krueger
Office Location: Lawrence Street Center 420N
Phone: (303) 315-2136
Fax: (303) 832-4832
Areas of Expertise:
Population Health, Demography, Medical Sociology, Family, Race/Ethnicity, Statistical Methods

 

 

Education & Degrees

Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder
B.A., Aquinas University

Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, and a member of the research faculty at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. I broadly focus on population, health, and have specific interest in understanding race/ethnic, sex, and socioeconomic disparities in health, health behaviors, and mortality over the life course.

Select Publications

Saint Onge, Jarron M., and Patrick M. Krueger. 2011. “Education and Race-Ethnic Differences in Types of Exercise in the United States.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 52(2):197-211.

Pampel, Fred C., Patrick M. Krueger, and Justin T. Denney. 2010. “Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors.” Annual Review of Sociology 36:349-370.

Krueger, Patrick M., Tajudaullah Bhaloo, and Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau. 2009. “Health Lifestyles in the U.S. and Canada: Are We Really So Different?” Social Science Quarterly 90(5):1380-1402.

Krueger, Patrick M. and Elliot Friedman. 2009. “Sleep Duration in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Population Based Study.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 169:1052-63.

Krueger, Patrick M., and Virginia Chang. 2008. “Being Poor and Coping with Stress: Health Behaviors and the Risk of Death.” American Journal of Public Health, 98:889-96.

Krueger, Patrick M., and Samuel H. Preston. 2008. “Cohort Fertility Patterns and Breast Cancer Mortality Rates among U.S. Women, 1948-2003.” Demographic Research, 18:263-84.

Courses Taught

SOCY 3020: Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
SOCY/PBHL 3440: Medical Sociology
HBSC 7061: Quantitative Methods in Health and Behavioral Sciences