Browsing Population Center, Hopkins by Issue Date
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The Association Between Grandparental Co-Residence and Adolescent Childbearing
(Hopkins Population Center, 1993)There is some evidence to suggest that, in the US, young women are predisposed to have children early and outside of marriage and to marry early when growing up in a non-intact family, plagued by poverty and economic ... -
Hyperstability
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Applications of GIS Technology to Disease Control
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Hyperstability
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Infertility and Early Pregnancy Loss
(Hopkins Population Center, 1994)The inability to achieve a recognized pregnancy may result from either failure of conception or implantation or an early postimplantation loss. Recently, a highly sensitive and specific assay for urinary human chorionic ... -
Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood
(Hopkins Population Center, 1995)We investigated the long-term effects of parental divorce in childhood on demographic outcomes in young adulthood, using a British longitudinal national survey of children. Our analyses control for predisruption ... -
The Measurements and Interpretation of Desired Fertility
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CHILD HEALTH DIAGNOSIS
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The Impact of Attitudes on Marriage Behavior
(Hopkins Population Center, 1996)e examine the effect of career orientation and attitudes toward marriage on marriage timing. Our focus is whether men and women with strong career orientations and work experience are less likely to marry, net of attitudes ... -
A Model of Child Morbidity, Mortality and Health Interventions
(Hopkins Population Center, 1996)A macro model of morbidity and mortality in children under five years of age is presented. Monthly disease-specific incidence and case fatality rates form the basis of the model and the efficacy and coverage of ... -
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 ... -
Smoking and Guns: Social Movements as Catalysts for Change
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A Prospective Study of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Planned and Unplanned Pregnancies in Natural Family Planning Users
(Hopkins Population Center, 1996)Objectives. To prospectively determine whether unplanned pregnancies are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes among users of natural family planning (NFP). Methods. Women who became pregnant while using NFP ... -
The Use of Neighborhood Mapping in Community Evaluation: The Experience of the Baltimore City Healthy Start Evaluation
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The Use of Neighborhood Mapping in Community Evaluation: The Experience of the Baltimore City Healthy Start Evaluation.
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Why Do Americans Want Children?
(Hopkins Population Center, 1996-08)Data from the 1987-88 US National Survey of Families and Households are used to test four hypotheses about fertility intentions. Fertility intentions are examined as a function of the importance of the social resource value ... -
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," ... -
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 ... -
Simultaneity in Maternal-Child Health Care Utilization and Contraceptive Use: Evidence from Developing Countries
(Hopkins Population Center, 1997-08)This study examined the relationship between the use of maternal-child health (MCH) care and the use of contraceptives. The high correlation between the two may be due to the independent effect of one on the other or to ... -
The Impact of Women's Participation in Credit Programs on the Demand for Quality Health Care in Rural Bangladesh
(Hopkins Population Center Papers on Population, 1998-03-18)