Search Results for Health and development

... development. Moreover, the findings that the adverse effects of socioeconomic disadvantage grow as children age but that the effects of poor health level off as children transition from early to middle childhood point to the need to identify early life course variation in children’s developmental...

...Norman L. Weatherby; Charles B. Nam; Larry W. Isaac Abstract We examine mortality at ages 50 and above in female populations of 38 countries and control for variation in quality of the mortality data. We find that economic development, economic distributional inequality, and basic primary health...

.... Pseudo-cohorts are constructed using female respondent data from 189 cross-sectional rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 50 developing countries between 1986 and 2013. Generalized linear models are estimated to test the relationships and calculate cohort-level outcome proportions...

... sanitation and population density in predicting health and human capital outcomes across developing countries. As motivation for a study that seeks to explain differences in child height between India and sub-Saharan Africa, Spears ( 2013 ) observed that heterogeneity in open-defecation density across...

...Lisa Cameron; Jenny Williams Abstract Recent research on the relationship between child health and income in developed countries reveals a positive gradient that is more pronounced for older children, suggesting that the impact of income upon health accumulates. This article examines whether...

... from Latin America. The results show that in all six countries, the use of contraceptives and MCH care are significantly associated, independent of intervening factors; this finding suggests that families develop a joint demand for better-quality health and limited family size and translate...

...Mark R. Montgomery; Paul C. Hewett Abstract In the United States and other high-income countries, there is intense scholarly and programmatic interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on health. Yet few studies of developing-country cities have explored these issues. We...

... in these settlements—commonly referred to as “slums”—suggests that slum residence constitutes a major health risk for children. In this article, we use data from 191 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) across 73 developing countries to investigate this concern empirically. Our results indicate that children in slums...

... Pregnancies in Guayaquil, Ecuador . Population Studies , 29 , 479 – 496 . 10.2307/2173940 DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 19, Number 3 August 1982 THE IMPACT OF CLASS, EDUCATION, AND HEALTH CARE ON INFANT MORTALITY IN A DEVELOPING SOCIETY: THE CASE OF RURAL THAILAND Paul D. Frenzen and Dennis P. Hogan Population...

... expectations and patterns of behavior, and by providing access to resources that were unavailable at the place of origin. These migration-related processes can impact migrants’ well-being positively and negatively. A substantial body of literature assesses health outcomes among immigrants to the developed...

... microdata, vital statistics, and pooled survey data sets.  b. Race-specific general rates of cohabitation union formation and dissolution.  c. Race-specific total fertility rates (TFR) by parity. c–f: Based on estimates released by the Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics...

... put in a test tube, labeled with an ID sticker, and sent to the laboratory, where the test is conducted by lab technicians. Test results are matched to the socioeconomic and self-reported health data after all identifying information is deleted from the database. Hence, apart from obvious fraudulent...

... IN THE STUDY OF PERINATAL MORTALITY B. Fischler Department of Social Medicine, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jeru- salem, Israel E. Peritz Child Health and Development Studies, Oakland, California; University of California, Berkeley, California and Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School...

... . 10.1097/00007435-200302000-00011 Mazengia , F. , & Worku , A. ( 2009 ). Age at sexual initiation and factors associated with it among youths in North East Ethiopia . Ethiopian Journal of Health Development , 23 , 154 – 162 . Mberu , B. , & White , M. ( 2011...

... and Smith 2017 ). While evidence is mixed, it is generally believed that the BCG vaccine protects only against the development of active TB but not infection itself ( World Health Organization 2021 ) and that the vaccine has the greatest benefits when administered after birth rather than to adolescents...

...) to examine the relationship between mobility and reproductive health outcomes in the context of migration to poor residential neighborhoods, which has become the primary force underlying the rapid rates of urbanization observed in developing countries (UN-HABITAT 2009 ; Bloom et al. 2010 ). We take...

...; 6.4%). This is an underestimate given that respondents could have been incarcerated between survey years but not at survey years. If a man reported that by age 26 and by age 37, his work was limited by his health or that he was disabled or unable to work, he was coded as being limited in work...

... this information retrospectively. This research has been funded by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01HD045610 and R01HD043472). The Center for Family and Demographic Research at Bowling Green State University and the Population Research...

... Vietnam after the war; see Goodkind ( 1997 ) for a discussion of some of the implications. The study is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (VanLandingham PI; R03HD042003). The NICHD program officer, Dr. Rebecca...