Exploring the meaning of context for health: Community influences on child health in South India [0.03%]
探究健康背景的意义:南印度儿童健康的社区影响
Nancy Luke,Hongwei Xu
Nancy Luke
Much research attention has been devoted to community context and health. Communities are often defined as residential spaces, such as neighborhoods, or as social groupings, such as caste in India. Using data from a group of tea estates in ...
Three-Generation Family Households in Early Childhood: Comparisons between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia [0.03%]
中美英澳早期儿童三代同堂家庭的比较研究
Natasha V Pilkauskas,Melissa L Martinson
Natasha V Pilkauskas
Background: Shifting demographic trends in the United States (US) have resulted in increasing numbers of three-generation family households, where a child lives with a parent(s) and grandparent(s). Although similar demogr...
Anticipatory child fostering and household economic security in Malawi [0.03%]
马拉维预期性儿童寄养与家庭经济安全的关系研究
Lauren K Bachan
Lauren K Bachan
Background: While there is a rich literature on the practice of child fostering in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how fostering impacts receiving households, as few studies consider household conditions both be...
Factors responsible for mortality variation in the United States: A latent variable analysis [0.03%]
美国死亡率差异的影响因素:潜在变量分析
Christopher Tencza,Andrew Stokes,Samuel Preston
Christopher Tencza
Background: Factors including smoking, drinking, substance abuse, obesity, and health care have all been shown to affect health and longevity. The relative importance of each of these factors is disputed in the literature...
Gender and time allocation of cohabiting and married women and men in France, Italy, and the United States [0.03%]
伴侣关系中的性别差异及法意美三国男女的时间分配状况研究
Suzanne Bianchi,Laurent Lesnard,Tiziana Nazio et al.
Suzanne Bianchi et al.
Background: Women, who generally do more unpaid and less paid work than men, have greater incentives to stay in marriages than cohabiting unions, which generally carry fewer legal protections for individuals that wish to ...
Susan Cassels,Samuel M Jenness,Adriana A E Biney et al.
Susan Cassels et al.
Background: HIV is spread through structured sexual networks, which are influenced by migration patterns, but network-oriented studies of mobility and HIV risk behavior have been limited. ...
Rural livelihoods and access to natural capital: Differences between migrants and non-migrants in Madagascar [0.03%]
移民和非移民马达加斯加农村居民的生计与获取自然资本的区别
Raphael J Nawrotzki,Lori M Hunter,Thomas W Dickinson
Raphael J Nawrotzki
Background: Although natural resources play a central role in rural livelihoods across the globe, little research has explored the relationship between migration and natural capital use, particularly in combination with o...
White-Hispanic differences in meeting lifetime fertility intentions in the U.S [0.03%]
美国白人与拉丁裔人在实现终生生育意愿方面的差异
Caroline Sten Hartnett
Caroline Sten Hartnett
Background: Hispanics in the U.S. have higher fertility than non-Hispanic Whites but it is not clear why this difference exists nor whether fertility levels reflect the preferences of individuals in these groups. Understa...
Variance in Death and Its Implications for Modeling and Forecasting Mortality [0.03%]
死亡的变异性及其对建模和预测 mortality 的影响
Shripad Tuljapurkar,Ryan D Edwards
Shripad Tuljapurkar
The slope and curvature of the survivorship function reflect the considerable amount of variance in length of life found in any human population. Part is due to the well-known variation in life expectancy between groups: large differences a...
Regional Probabilistic Fertility Forecasting by Modeling Between-Country Correlations [0.03%]
基于模彷国家间相关性的区域概率生育预报
Bailey K Fosdick,Adrian E Raftery
Bailey K Fosdick
Background: The United Nations (UN) Population Division produces probabilistic projections for the total fertility rate (TFR) using the Bayesian hierarchical model of Alkema et al. (2011), which produces predictive distri...