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The Hopkins Population Center (HPC) was established in 1971 with a mandate to stimulate and facilitate interdisciplinary population research throughout the Johns Hopkins University. The HPC is unique among NICHD-funded centers in having a large majority of its faculty associates from health institutions (Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Nursing). From its inception, the vision underlying the HPC has been the highest quality research, resulting from interactions among population researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, aided by state of the art research infrastructure. Today, the HPC serves more than 50 research associates from the east-Baltimore medical campus and the Homewood arts and sciences campus. Homepage Current Publications
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Household Structure as a Response to Economic Adjustments : Evidence from the 1980's Urban Mexico
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Are Adolescent Mothers Just Single Mothers?
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The Role of Government Policy for Health : Equity versus Efficiency or Poverty versus Fiscal Vulnerability
(Hopkins Population Center, 1992-04-11)Since the 1980s, many developing countries have been adjusting to severe macro economlc imbalances. There has been a concern that the accompanying changes in fiscal policy may be having a detrimental effect on the health ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Implications of Population Aging for Geriatric Health
(Hopkins Population Center, 1998-08)This analysis examines four theories about the relationships between mortality, morbidity, and disability in old age in the US and discusses the evidence. The theories include the pandemic of Chronic Diseases, Compression ... -
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 ... -
Why Society Needs to Value Health Improvements in Dollars
(Hopkins Population Center, 1998-07)Background. U.S. health planners typically set health objectives without information about how much of their resources the American people wish to devote to improved health. Objectives. This paper indicates how ignoring ... -
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 ... -
Generalized Exchange and Intergenerational Transfers in Taiwanese and Filipino Families
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Parental Divorce and Partnership Dissolution in Adulthood: Evidence from a British Cohort Study
(Hopkins Population Center, 1998-04)From a longitudinal survey of a British cohort born in 1958 this study finds that, by age 33, off-spring of parents who divorced are more likely to have dissolved their first partnerships. This finding persists after taking ... -
Individual and Community-Level Determinants of Domestic Violence in Rural Bangladesh
(Hopkins Population Center, 1999-05)Although there is growing recognition of the problem of domestic violence in developing countries, relatively little remains known about both its prevalence and associated risk factors. The study employs multi-level models ... -
Multi-Generational Exchanges in Taiwan and the Philippines: A Social Network Approach
(Hopkins Population Center, 1999-03)Resource exchanges among multiple family generations are examined using social network measures. A specific focus is on pathways through which older adults transfer resources from one generation to another. The paper uses ... -
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) -
The Use of Neighborhood Mapping in Community Evaluation: The Experience of the Baltimore City Healthy Start Evaluation
(Hopkins Population Center, 1996-07) -
Alternative Fertility Measures: Their Sensitivity and Relationship to Fertility Rates
(Hopkins Population Center, 1977-04) -
Demography and the Biomedical Sciences: The Integration of Demographic and Epidemiologic Approaches to Studies of Health in Developing Countries
(Hopkins Population Center, 1985-06)
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