Poster Session 5: Health and Mortality

Friday, May 2 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Grand Ballroom A 3rd Floor

1.	The Effect of the Changing Composition of Births on Infant Mortality in Africa  •   Mark S. Mather, Population Reference Bureau; Peter J. Donaldson, Population Reference Bureau

2.	Environmental and Socio-Demographic Risk Factors of Childhood Mortality: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveillance Data  •   Kubaje Adazu, Brown University

3.	Risk of Child Mortality Due to Environmental Hazards in Rural Bangladesh  •   Md. Kapil Ahmed, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research; Peter K. Streatfield, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research

4.	Community Effects on Infant Mortality in Rural India: A Multilevel Approach to Prioritize the Program Inputs  •   Damodar Sahu, Institute for Research in Medical Statistics (ICMR); Arvind Pandey, Indian Council of Medical Research; Sada Nand Dwivedi, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

5.	Influence of Ethnic Differentials in Socioeconomic Status and Health Care on Childhood Mortality  •   Kuniko Chijiwa, University of Florida

6.	Estimating the Effect of Living Standards on Childhood Mortality in Rural Malawi  •   Henry V. Doctor, University of Pennsylvania

7.

Poverty, Education, Race, and Pregnancy Outcome  •   David A. Savitz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jay S. Kaufman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Nancy Dole, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Anna Maria Siega-Riz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; John M. Thorp, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Diane Kaczor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

8.

External shocks, state management and under-five mortality in Zambia  •   Michel Garenne, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD); Eneas Gakusi, Centre D'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI); Christopher Grigoriou, Centre D'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI)

9.	Environmental Impact on Health in the New Era of India: A Study of Mumbai Mega City  •   Ashok Kumar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

10.	The Persistence of Rural-Urban Health Gap Among Under-Five Children in Sub-Saharan Africa  •   Jacob Adetunji, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

11.	The Impact of SES on Relationships between Children's Medical Impairments and Their Physical and Mental Health Status and School Attendance  •   Roger Avery, Brown University; Michael Msall, Brown University; Michelle L. Rogers, Brown University

12.	Functional Health among Schoolage Latino Children  •   Barbara Zsembik, University of Florida; Amy K Johnson, University of Florida

13.	Education, Health Knowledge & Child Health in Ghana  •   Catherine N. Stiff, Brown University

14.	Declines in Childhood Anemia in Kazakstan: How Fast and for Whom?  •   Benjamin Moulton, University of Texas at Austin; Amanda Maedgen, University of Texas at Austin

15.	Maternal Employment, Malnutrition and Morbidity among Children in Tamilnadu, India  •   Alesan Thangasamy, Kamaraj College

17.	Community Collective Efficacy and Adolescent Health in Los Angeles  •   Deborah Cohen, RAND; Brian K. Finch, RAND

18.	Family Structure and Adolescent Obesity  •   Christine Himes, Syracuse University

19.	Seasonal Mortality in Denmark. The Role of Sex and Age  •   Roland Rau, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Gabriele Doblhammer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

20.	Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health and Healthcare Use for Children in Rural Bangladesh: Does Public Health Intervention Make a Difference?  •   Nurul Alam, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research

21.	Explaining High Rates of Hunger and Food Insecurity in Oregon  •   Mark E. Edwards, Oregon State University; Bruce A. Weber, Oregon State University

22.	Do Work Characteristics Affect Health? Experiences of the Middle-Aged in East Asia  •   Yean-Ju Lee, University of Hawaii at Honolulu; Yasuhiko Saito, Nihon University; Yi-Li Chuang, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan; Yu-Hsuan Lin, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan

23.	Cortisol Patterns and Stress in Working Parents  •   Lianne M. Kurina, University of Chicago; Barbara Schneider, University of Chicago

24.	Family Planning, Gender Preference, and Child Health: The Case of Bangladesh  •   Juhua Yang, Brown University

25.	Love and Death in Germany. The Marital Biography and Its Impact on Mortality  •   Hilke Brockmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

26.	Access to Safe Drinking Water: Effects on Health and Time Management  •   Garimella Rama Rao, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Sita K, Independent Consultant; Prasad M.N.V., International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

27.	Water Resources and Quality of Life: Case Studies in Indian Villages  •   Rekha Krishnan, Tata Energy Research Institute

28.	Commuting and Exposure to Airborne Carcinogenic Materials: A Case Study of Bangkok  •   Priyakamon Khan, Mahidol University; Sureeporn Punpuing, Mahidol University; Martin A. Hooper, Monash University; Bev Hooper, Monash University

30.	Effect of Early Health on Cognitive Ability  •   Carolina Milesi, University of Wisconsin at Madison

31.	Adult Health Transition in Low-Income Asia: Evidence from Indonesia and China  •   John Strauss, Michigan State University; Agus Dwiyanto, Gadjah Mada University; Zhehui Luo, Michigan State University; Bondan Sikoki, RAND

32.	Change and Continuity in Mortality Trends in Romania: A Case Study of Eastern European Mortality  •   Solveig Argeseanu, University of Pennsylvania

33.	Acceleration of the Rate of Increase of Centenarians: A Comparison of England, France and Japan  •   Jean Marie Robine, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM); Carol Jagger, University of Leicester

34.	Native American-White Differences in Adult Health  •   Shu-chuan Wang, University of Texas at Austin

35.	Gender Differentials in the Leading Causes of Death among African American in the United States  •   Monique Wilson, Morgan State University; Mian B. Hossain, Morgan State University

36.	Are Sex Mortality Differentials Biologically Caused? Madigan Revisited by a New Comparison of Sex-Specific Survival in Monastic and General Population  •   Marc A. Luy, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany

37.	Sociodemographic Characteristics of Homicides in Puerto Rico: 1990-1999  •   Raul Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico

38.	Demographics of Tobacco Use in Puerto Rico: 1996-2000  •   Luz Leon, University of Puerto Rico; Dinorah Heredia, University of Puerto Rico

39.

Life Course of Cardiovascular Disease by Smoking History -Multistate Life Table Analysis of the Framingham Heart Study Original Cohort  •   Abdullah A. Mamun, University of Groningen; Anna Peeters, Erasmus University; Jan Barendregt, Erasmus University; Wilma Nusselder, Erasmus University; Luc Bonnuex, Erasmus University

40.	A Longitudinal Study of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in a Remote Region of Northern Tanzania  •   Brooke R Johnson, Ipas; Moke Magoma, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Tanzania; Paul W. Leslie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Trude Bennett, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

41.	Population Composition as an Intervening Mechanism in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Mortality in U.S. States  •   Elayne J. Heisler, Duke University

42.	Admission to General Hospital as a Predictor for Suicide among the Elderly  •   Annette Erlangsen, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

43.

The Effect of Veteran Status on Mortality among Older Americans and Its Pathways  •   Xian Liu, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Charles Engel, Jr., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Han Kang, Department of Veterans Affairs; David Cowan, Walter Reed Army Medical Center

44.

Utilizing Successful Research in Community-Based Services with Constrained Resources: The Nkwanta Experience Catalyzing Organizational Change in Rural Ghana  •   John K Awoonor-Williams, Volta Regional Health Administration; Tanya C. Jones, Population Council; Frank Nyonator, Ghana Health Service; James F. Phillips, Population Council

45.	Children's Health Insurance 2001  •   Shailesh R Bhandari, U.S. Census Bureau; Elizabeth J. Gifford, Pennsylvania State University

46.	Gaps and Transitions in Health Care Access: Welfare Reform and America's Uninsured Poor Children  •   Deborah Graefe, Pennsylvania State University; Pamela Farley Short, Pennsylvania State University; Tokunba Oluwole, Pennsylvania State University

47.	Unequal Access: Why Are Some Children Using Hospital-Based Facilities as a Usual Source of Care?  •   Kelly Holder, Brown University

48.

Correlates of Medicaid Status: An Examination of Children from Low-Income Families in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio  •   Ronald Angel, University of Texas at Austin; Sonia Frias, University of Texas at Austin; Terrence Hill, University of Texas at Austin; Maren Andrea Jimenez, University of Texas at Austin

51.	Adolescents’ Use of Maternal and Child Health Services in Developing Countries  •   Heidi W. Reynolds, Family Health International; Shyam Thapa, Family Health International; Emily Wong, Family Health International; Catherine Harcum, ; Heidi Toms,

52.	Access to Health Care during the Transition to Adulthood for Youth with Disabilities  •   Elizabeth J. Gifford, Pennsylvania State University

53.	Where Does India Stand? Can Legalization of Induced Abortion Really Save the Lives of Indian Women: A Study Based on Evidence from Five Major Indian States  •   Paromita Dutta, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

54.	County Characteristics and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Preventive Services  •   Maureen R Benjamins, University of Texas at Austin; James B. Kirby, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); Stephanie A. Bond Huie, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

55.	Reducing Parameters by Developing a New Mortality Model  •   Rajesh K. Chauhan, Planning Department, Uttar Pradesh, India

56.

Spatial Implications of Different Mortality Standardization Schemes  •   Ronald E. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Jeralynn S. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Troy Blanchard, Mississippi State University; Wesley James, Mississippi State University; Carol Campbell, Mississippi State University

57.	Estimation of Adult Survival Probabilities at Various Five-Year Ages beyond Age 5 from the Cumulative Life Table Survival Ratios - T(x+5)/T(x) in Life Table Terminology: A Methodological Investigation  •   Subrata Lahiri, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

58.	A Comparison of Six Methods for Decomposition of Changes in Expectation of Life at Birth and Differentials in Life Expectancy at Birth  •   Krishna Murthy Ponnapalli, Addis Ababa University

59.	Using Burial Surveillance Data to Monitor HIV/AIDS Mortality in Developing Countries. An Example from Ethiopia  •   Georges Reniers, University of Pennsylvania; Tekebash Araya, Addis Ababa University; Eduard Sanders, Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute

60.	National Data Sources on the Risk and Incidence of Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths  •   Brian Wiersema, University of Maryland

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