Health and development among Mexican, black and white preschool children: An integrative approach using latent class analysis [0.03%]
墨西哥、非裔和白人学龄前儿童的健康和发展：采用潜在类别分析的整合方法
Nancy S Landale,Stephanie T Lanza,Marianne Hillemeier et al.
Nancy S Landale et al.
Background: Building on an emerging scientific consensus that the concept of child health should encompass chronic conditions, functional abilities, and developmental domains, we delineate the multidimensional health stat...
Sibling support and the educational prospects of young adults in Malawi [0.03%]
马拉维年轻人的教育前景与其兄弟姐妹的支持有关吗？
Jenny Trinitapoli,Sara Yeatman,Jasmine Fledderjohann
Jenny Trinitapoli
Background: Extended kin networks are an important social and economic resource in Africa. Existing research has focused primarily on intergenerational ties, but much less is known about "lateral" ties, such as those betw...
An examination of black/white differences in the rate of age-related mortality increase [0.03%]
种族差异与年龄相关的死亡率增长速度的研究分析
Andrew Fenelon
Andrew Fenelon
Background: The rate of mortality increase with age among adults is typically used as a measure of the rate of functional decline associated with aging or senescence. While black and white populations differ in the level ...
Gary King,Samir Soneji
Gary King
Population mortality forecasts are widely used for allocating public health expenditures, setting research priorities, and evaluating the viability of public and private pensions, and health care financing systems. In part because existing ...
A crossover in Mexican and Mexican-American fertility rates: Evidence and explanations for an emerging paradox [0.03%]
墨西哥和美国墨西哥人的生育率交叉点：证据及新兴悖论的解释
Reanne Frank,Patrick Heuveline
Reanne Frank
Against a backdrop of two new developments in the fertility behavior of the Mexican-Origin population in the U.S., the present discussion will update contemporary Mexican-Origin fertility patterns and address several theoretical weaknesses ...
Marta M Jankowska,Magdalena Benza,John R Weeks
Marta M Jankowska
Background: Recent studies indicate that the traditional rural-urban dichotomy pointing to cities as places of better health in the developing world can be complicated by poverty differentials. Knowledge of spatial patter...
The Age Pattern of Increases in Mortality Affected by HIV: Bayesian Fit of the Heligman-Pollard Model to Data from the Agincourt HDSS Field Site in Rural Northeast South Africa [0.03%]
基于南非农村地区HIV数据的Heligman-Pollard模型的Bayesian拟合及受HIV影响的死亡率的增长变化规律
David J Sharrow,Samuel J Clark,Mark A Collinson et al.
David J Sharrow et al.
Background: We investigate the sex-age-specific changes in the mortality of a prospectively monitored rural population in South Africa. We quantify changes in the age pattern of mortality in a parsimonious way by estimati...
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN'S GENDER ATTITUDES AND FERTILITY: Response to Puur, et al.'s "Men's childbearing desires and views of the male role in Europe at the dawn of the 21st century", Demographic Research 19: 1883-1912 [0.03%]
性别观念与生育之间的关系——对Puur等人基于欧洲男性视角在21世纪之初的人口意愿研究的回应
Charles F Westoff,Jenny A Higgins
Charles F Westoff
Letícia J Marteleto,Molly Dondero
Letícia J Marteleto
Background: Brazil has witnessed dramatic changes in its fertility patterns in recent decades. The decline to below-replacement fertility has been accompanied by increases in the proportion of children born to young mothe...
Men's and women's migration in coastal Ghana: An event history analysis [0.03%]
加纳沿海地区的男性和女性迁移：事件史分析
Holly E Reed,Catherine S Andrzejewski,Michael J White
Holly E Reed
This article uses life history calendar (LHC) data from coastal Ghana and event history statistical methods to examine inter-regional migration for men and women, focusing on four specific migration types: rural-urban, rural-rural, urban-ur...