Felicia Victoria Wheaton

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Bethune-Cookman University

The objectives were to determine whether women always fare more poorly in terms of physical function and disability across countries that vary widely in terms of their level of development, epidemiologic context and level of gender equality. Sex differences in self-reported and objective measures of disability and physical function were compared am...

While deleterious consequences of smoking on health have been widely publicized, in many developing countries, smoking prevalence is high and increasing. Little is known about the dynamics underlying changes in smoking behavior. This paper examines socio-economic and demographic characteristics associated with smoking initiation and quitting in Mex...

Objective: This study examines sex differences in the association between migration and exposure to an urban environment and overweight, hypertension and diabetes in later life. Methods: Interviews were conducted with 3,604 adults aged 50 and older in the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS). Logistic regression analyses were used to examine the asso...

Little is known about disability in traditional human populations, such as the Tsimane of Bolivia. The Tsimane are an Amazonian forager-horticulturalist group with high levels of physical activity and low prevalence of obesity and cardiovascular disease, but have high levels of inflammation, a life expectancy of only 54 years, and limited access to...

The Oxford Handbook of Retirement offers comprehensive, up-to-date, and forward-thinking summaries of contemporary knowledge on retirement, especially the important progress that has been made in the field over the past two decades. The approach taken spans human resource management, organizational psychology, development psychology, gerontology, s...