No consistent effects of prenatal or neonatal exposure to Spanish flu on late-life mortality in 24 developed countries [0.03%]
发达国家24岁人群妊娠期或新生儿期接触西班牙流感与晚年死亡率无显著关系
Alan A Cohen,John Tillinghast,Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Alan A Cohen
We test the effects of early life exposure to disease on later health by looking for differences in late-life mortality in cohorts born around the 1918-1919 flu pandemic using data from the Human Mortality Database for 24 countries. After c...
Out of sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries [0.03%]
脱节了吗？发展中世界健康状况的人口学及其他社会科学的研究
Jere R Behrman,Julia A Behrman,Nykia M Perez
Jere R Behrman
In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to be relatively high. Based on this frame...
Charles Q Strohm,Judith A Seltzer,Susan D Cochran et al.
Charles Q Strohm et al.
We use two surveys to describe the demographic and attitudinal correlates of being in "Living Apart Together" (LAT), cohabiting, and marital relationships for heterosexuals, lesbians, and gay men. About one third of U.S. adults not married ...
Asking God about the date you will die: HIV testing as a zone of uncertainty in rural Malawi [0.03%]
询问上帝你将在哪天死去：马拉维农村地区艾滋病检测的不确定性区域
Amy Kaler,Susan Watkins
Amy Kaler
Testing for HIV is becoming more available in Africa. Global advocates of testing see it as key to AIDS prevention. However, testing is not always perceived as a good thing by people at risk. Here, we consider testing from the perspective o...
Brian Chin
Brian Chin
This paper attempts to isolate the causal link of income on health status and subjective well-being for the rural population in Malawi using three waves of household panel data spanning the period 2004-2008 from the Malawi Diffusion and Ide...
Measuring pregnancy planning: An assessment of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy among urban, south Indian women [0.03%]
对印度南部城市妇女进行伦敦地区意外怀孕测量方法评估以衡量其妊娠计划程度
Corinne H Rocca,Suneeta Krishnan,Geraldine Barrett et al.
Corinne H Rocca et al.
We evaluated the psychometric properties of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy among Indian women using classical methods and Item Response Modeling. The scale exhibited good internal consistency and internal structure, with overall ...
Estimating health expectancies from two cross-sectional surveys: The intercensal method [0.03%]
利用两次横断面调查估计健康预期寿命：局域 census 法
Michel Guillot,Yan Yu
Michel Guillot
Health expectancies are key indicators for monitoring the health of populations, as well as for informing debates about compression or expansion of morbidity. However, current methodologies for estimating them are not entirely satisfactory....
A description of within-family resource exchange networks in a Malawian village [0.03%]
马拉维一个村庄内家庭资源交换网络的描述
Gail E Potter,Mark S Handcock
Gail E Potter
In this paper we explore patterns of economic transfers between adults within household and family networks in a village in Malawi's Rumphi district, using data from the 2006 round of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health. We...
Ke Shen,Yi Zeng
Ke Shen
Based on the unique longitudinal data of the elderly aged 65+ with a sufficiently large sub-sample of the oldest-old aged 85+ from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we construct a resilience scale with 7 indicators for the ...
Children's experiences of family disruption in Sweden: Differentials by parent education over three decades [0.03%]
瑞典三代人家庭破裂对儿童的影响：按父母学历的差异分析
Sheela Kennedy,Elizabeth Thomson
Sheela Kennedy
This paper examines the living arrangements of Swedish children from 1970 through 1999 using the Level of Living Survey. Sweden, with low levels of economic inequality and a generous welfare state, provides an important context for studying...