Browsing Population Center, Hopkins by Title
Now showing items 7-26 of 58
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A bargaining theory of sexual behavior in women's adolescence
(Hopkins Population Center, 1992) -
Black Activist Mothering: A Historical Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class
(Hopkins Population Center, 1997)The prevalence of poor health among young disadvantaged Black mothers and their children has prompted a revival of maternal activism among Black middle-class urban women. A study of the California-based "Birthing Project," ... -
CHILD HEALTH DIAGNOSIS
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Child Mortality Estimation by Time Since First Birth
(Hopkins Population Center, 1999)The Brass method for estimating child mortality from proportions dead of children ever born classified by age or duration of marriage of mother has revolutionized our knowledge of child mortality levels and trends in ... -
Childhood Mortality in Kenya: An examination of trends and determinants in the late 1980s to mid 1990s
(Hopkins Population Center, 2001-01)After Independence in the early 1960s, child mortality in Kenya fell rapidly. Until around 1980, the under 5 mortality rate (U5MR), the probability of dying by age 5, fell at an annual rate of about 4 percent per annum. ... -
Childhood Precursors of Adult Morbidity and Mortality In Developing Countries : Implications for Health Programs
(Hopkins Population Center, 1992-06-05)This paper will examine only one aspect of this health transition in developing countries. It will look at the emerging health problems among the adults and the aged and assess to what degree these chronic diseases and ... -
The Decline of Childhood Mortality
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Demography and Policy : an Asian Experience
(Hopkins Population Center, 1991)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing the use of demographic knowledge in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policies. The focus of the discussion is to conceptualize the ... -
Demography and the Biomedical Sciences: The Integration of Demographic and Epidemiologic Approaches to Studies of Health in Developing Countries
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Disagreement in Spousal Reports of Current Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Hopkins Population Center, 1998-12)Contraceptive prevalence is a key variable estimated from Demographic and Health Surveys. But the prevalence estimated from reports of husbands differs widely from that estimated for wives. In this research, using data ... -
Does the Law of Diminishing Returns Apply to Infant Motality Decline?
(Hopkins Population Center, 2001-06-22)Objective: This paper examines time series data on infant mortality from 21 countries to demonstrate an appropriate test of the hypothesis that percentage reductions in infant mortality are larger when infant mortality is ... -
Economic, physical, and political characteristics of neighborhood of residence and the risk of low birth weight.
(Hopkins Population Center, 1996)Low birth weight remains an important public health problem in the U.S. Most research on low birth weight focuses on individual-level determinants of low birth weight such as health behaviors or use of prenatal care. We ... -
The Effectiveness of Natural Family Planning Methods for Birth Spacing: A comprehensive review
(Hopkins Population Center, 1999-07)Calendar rhythm is in the same range of effectiveness as modern NFP. When calendar rhythm studies are standardized, the projected rhythm pregnancy rates, 15.0 and 18.5 are within the range of modern NFP methods. Unplanned ... -
Effects of Divorce on Mental Health Through the Life Course
(Hopkins Population Center, 1997-02)The long-term effects of divorce on individuals after the transition to adulthood are examined using information from a British birth cohort that has been followed from birth to age 33. Growth-curve models and fixed-effects ... -
Family Composition Effects in Gender Differentials in Nutrition and Immunization in Rural India
(Hopkins Population Center, 2000-01)The literature on gender discrimination over the last several decades has shown that gender differentials in child mortality exist in most regions of the developing world, with particularly severe excess female mortality ... -
Generalized Exchange and Intergenerational Transfers in Taiwanese and Filipino Families
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Historical Trends in the Sex Ratio at Birth
(Hopkins Population Center, 1990-01) -
The History, Methodology and Main Findings of the Matlab Project in Bangladesh
(Hopkins Population Center, 1992) -
Household Structure as a Response to Economic Adjustments : Evidence from the 1980's Urban Mexico
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Hyperstability
(Hopkins Population Center, 1993)