Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 1464
Search Results for Health Transition
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
The Population Education Transition Curve: Education Gradients Across Population Exposure to New Health Risks
Available to Purchase
Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1873–1895.
Published: 05 September 2017
... in opposite directions or are differentially suppressed and enhanced. We propose the population education transition (PET) curve as a unifying functional form to predict shifting education gradients across the onset and course of a population’s exposure to new health risks and their associated consequences...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
View articletitled, The Population Education <span class="search-highlight">Transition</span> Curve: Education Gradients Across Population Exposure to New <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Risks
View
PDF
for article titled, The Population Education <span class="search-highlight">Transition</span> Curve: Education Gradients Across Population Exposure to New <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Risks
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
The spread of health services and fertility Transition
Available to Purchase
Demography (2007) 44 (4): 747–770.
Published: 01 November 2007
... investigation focuses on a setting in rural Nepal that experienced a transition from virtually no use of birth control in 1945 to the widespread use of birth control by 1995 to limit fertility. Changes in the availability of many different dimensions of health services provide the means to evaluate...
View articletitled, The spread of <span class="search-highlight">health</span> services and fertility <span class="search-highlight">Transition</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, The spread of <span class="search-highlight">health</span> services and fertility <span class="search-highlight">Transition</span>
Journal Article
Investigating the mechanism of marital mortality reduction: The transition to widowhood and quality of health care
Available to Purchase
Demography (2009) 46 (3): 605–625.
Published: 01 August 2009
... analyze six established measures of quality of health care in a fixed-effect framework to account for unobserved heterogeneity. Caregiving and acute bereavement during the transition to widowhood appear to distract individuals from taking care of their own health care needs in the short run. However...
View articletitled, Investigating the mechanism of marital mortality reduction: The <span class="search-highlight">transition</span> to widowhood and quality of <span class="search-highlight">health</span> care
View
PDF
for article titled, Investigating the mechanism of marital mortality reduction: The <span class="search-highlight">transition</span> to widowhood and quality of <span class="search-highlight">health</span> care
Journal Article
Mental Health Around the Transition to First Birth: Does Medically Assisted Reproduction Matter?
Open Access
Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1347–1371.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of family transitions on mental health (and potentially well-being more generally) vary according to the mode of conception. As the utilization of MAR becomes more widespread, it is crucial that family scholars increase their efforts to test for and highlight potential differences in how the mode...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
View articletitled, Mental <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Around the <span class="search-highlight">Transition</span> to First Birth: Does Medically Assisted Reproduction Matter?
View
PDF
for article titled, Mental <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Around the <span class="search-highlight">Transition</span> to First Birth: Does Medically Assisted Reproduction Matter?
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting
Available to Purchase
Demography (2024) 61 (1): 31–57.
Published: 01 February 2024
... the respondents who participated in the census, the field team, and the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit in the Agincourt subdistrict. We are grateful for funding support from the U.S. National Institute on Aging (R01 AG049634, HIV After 40 in Rural South Africa: Aging...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting
View
PDF
for article titled, Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1687–1713.
Published: 01 October 2021
... a mother's pregnancy with a younger sibling is considerably lower. This period has not been considered in previous studies, and caregivers should be aware that this period can be beneficial to infant and child health. Special attention should also be given to the transition that follows from pregnancy...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
View articletitled, The Crucial Role of Mothers and Siblings in Child Survival: Evidence From 29 <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
View
PDF
for article titled, The Crucial Role of Mothers and Siblings in Child Survival: Evidence From 29 <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Child Mobility, Maternal Status, and Household Composition in Rural South Africa
Available to Purchase
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 699–718.
Published: 20 January 2012
... . Kahn K. , Tollman S. M. , Collinson M. A. , Clark S. J. , Twine R. , Clark B. D. , & Garenne M. ( 2007 ). Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: Data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System...
Journal Article
Do Migrants Exhibit More Grit? A Research Note
Open Access
Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1309–1323.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Institute of Child Health and Human Development via National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant 1R01HD083374, “Migration, Urbanization and Health in a Transition Setting,” with additional institutional support to Brown University's Population Studies and Training Center from NIH P2CHD041020. The MRC/Wits...
Journal Article
A General Age-Specific Mortality Model With an Example Indexed by Child Mortality or Both Child and Adult Mortality
Available to Purchase
Demography (2019) 56 (3): 1131–1159.
Published: 28 May 2019
... of the exhaustive coverage of household surveys investigating fertility and maternal/child health, essentially the whole world has at least some recent information on child mortality (Li 2015 ). In contrast, 50 countries around the world with a total population of nearly 1 billion people have no information...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
View articletitled, A General Age-Specific Mortality Model With an Example Indexed by Child Mortality or Both Child and Adult Mortality
View
PDF
for article titled, A General Age-Specific Mortality Model With an Example Indexed by Child Mortality or Both Child and Adult Mortality
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries
Available to Purchase
Demography (2011) 48 (3): 815–839.
Published: 12 July 2011
..., Principal Investigator) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NICHD or those of the United Nations. The authors are grateful to Kirill...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
View articletitled, Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries
View
PDF
for article titled, Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research Note
Open Access
Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1675–1688.
Published: 01 December 2023
... differences in health transitions. We illustrate the method using data on activities of daily living from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study to decompose the sex differential in disability-free life expectancy (HLE) among older Americans. Our results suggest that the sex gap in HLE results primarily from...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Decomposition of Differentials in <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research Note
View
PDF
for article titled, Decomposition of Differentials in <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research Note
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Educational attainment and transitions in functional status among older Taiwanese
Available to Purchase
Demography (1998) 35 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 August 1998
... a multinomial logit model, controlling for other factors often thought to be associated with health transitions. High levels of educational attainment result in a decreased incidence of functional limitation for those originating in a state of independence. Contrary to expectations, however, education has...
Journal Article
Changing Mortality and Morbidity Rates and the Health Status and Life Expectancy of the Older Population
Available to Purchase
Demography (1994) 31 (1): 159–175.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Eileen M. Crimmins; Mark D. Hayward; Yasuhiko Saito Abstract This paper demonstrates the consequences of changes in mortality and health transition rates for changes in both health status life expectancy and the prevalence of health problems in the older population. A five-state multistate life...
View articletitled, Changing Mortality and Morbidity Rates and the <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Status and Life Expectancy of the Older Population
View
PDF
for article titled, Changing Mortality and Morbidity Rates and the <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Status and Life Expectancy of the Older Population
Journal Article
Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1715–1730.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... death registry. Importantly, these models can be replicated with a wide range of indicators, including, for example, self-rated health and disease incidence. Using the first imputation, we estimate the transition probabilities by age and sex and simulate 500,000 individual trajectories from ages 50...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
View articletitled, Modeling Disability-Free Life Expectancy With Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the Bias in the Markov Assumption
View
PDF
for article titled, Modeling Disability-Free Life Expectancy With Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the Bias in the Markov Assumption
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Retrospective information on health status and its application for population health measures
Available to Purchase
Demography (2008) 45 (1): 115–128.
Published: 01 February 2008
... years of life in various health states and that estimates based on such information will closely approximate estimates based on concurrent health information. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2008 2008 Health Transition Health Expectancy Healthy Life Expectancy...
View articletitled, Retrospective information on <span class="search-highlight">health</span> status and its application for population <span class="search-highlight">health</span> measures
View
PDF
for article titled, Retrospective information on <span class="search-highlight">health</span> status and its application for population <span class="search-highlight">health</span> measures
Journal Article
Geographic morbidity differentials in the late nineteenth-century United States
Available to Purchase
Demography (1999) 36 (4): 429–443.
Published: 01 November 1999
... and migration. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1999 1999 Health Transition Mortality Decline Crude Rate Urban Rate Epidemiologic Transition References Alter , G. ( 1995 ). Trends in Old-Age Mortality in the United States, 1990–1935: Evidence From Railroad...
Journal Article
An integrative approach to health
Available to Purchase
Demography (2010) 47 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2010
.... It is furthermore vital that integration occur in all steps of the research process: in theory, design, data collection, and analysis. I use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, or Add Health, as an example of an integrative approach to health and of the importance of adolescence and the transition...
Journal Article
Maternal education and child health: Is there a strong causal relationship?
Available to Purchase
Demography (1998) 35 (1): 71–81.
Published: 01 February 1998
... Transition Review , 4 , 207 – 15 . Benefo , K. , & Parnell , A. ( 1991 ). The Determinants of Breast-feeding Practices in Ghana, Proceedings of the Demographic and Health Surveys World Conference (pp. 475 – 96 ). Columbia, MD : lRD/Macro International, Inc. . Bicego , G.T...
Journal Article
Impact of Migration on Fertility and Abortion: Evidence From the Household and Welfare Study of Accra
Available to Purchase
Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2229–2254.
Published: 08 November 2014
... large gaps in fertility between rural and urban areas. Although a large literature has highlighted the importance of migration and urbanization within countries’ demographic transitions, relatively little is known regarding the impact of migration on migrants’ reproductive health outcomes in general...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
View articletitled, Impact of Migration on Fertility and Abortion: Evidence From the Household and Welfare Study of Accra
View
PDF
for article titled, Impact of Migration on Fertility and Abortion: Evidence From the Household and Welfare Study of Accra
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Spanish Surname and Anglo Infant Mortality: Differentials Over a Half-Century
Available to Purchase
Demography (1991) 28 (4): 639–660.
Published: 01 November 1991
... as leading causes of death which in the adult population has come to be known as the "epidemiologic transition" (Frenk et al. 1989; Ornran 1971, 1977). On the other hand, in view of the progress made in the prevention and control of contagious disease generated by advances in medicine and public health...
1
