Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 588 Search Results for
Maternal mortality
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
Demography (1977) 14 (3): 297–310.
Published: 01 August 1977
...Linda G. Berry Abstract Comparisons of crude and standardized rates of maternal mortality show that changes in age and parity distributions of births had some influence on maternal mortality trends for the years 1919–1969 in the United States. Changes in the age and parity distributions of births...
Journal Article
Demography (2020) 57 (2): 559–576.
Published: 08 April 2020
... permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Mortality Maternal health Fertility Twins In times of demographic change and aging populations, policy-makers in many countries are concerned about...
FIGURES
Includes: Supplementary data
Image
in Gender and the Politics of Death: Female Representation, Political and Developmental Context, and Population Health in a Cross-National Panel
> Demography
Published: 20 August 2018
Fig. 6 Estimated marginal effects: Predicted maternal mortality ratio by female political representation, extent of democratic institutionalization, and various indicators of economic and social development with other covariates held at their means
More
Journal Article
Demography (1984) 21 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 August 1984
... and then explained statistically as a product of the distribution of births by birth weight and maternal age. The impact of birth weight is more pronounced than is the effect of maternal age. The analysis suggests the potential utility of examining infant mortality separately by cause of death. Based on the findings...
Journal Article
An assessment of methods for estimating adult mortality from two sets of data on maternal orphanhood
Demography (1986) 23 (3): 435–450.
Published: 01 August 1986
... II de Vivienda. 4 de Junio 1972 . Lima, Peru. Palloni , A. , Massagli , M. , & Marcotte , J. ( 1984 ). Estimating adult mortality with maternal orphanhood data: analysis of sensitivity of the techniques . Population Studies , 38 , 255 – 279 . 10.2307/2174076 Pison, G...
Journal Article
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 607–627.
Published: 17 March 2012
.... In order to overcome these shortcomings, I modify and extend the so-called orphanhood method for indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey information on maternal and paternal survival to allow its application to populations of developed countries. The method is demonstrated and tested with data...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 495–520.
Published: 10 October 2012
....-born non-Hispanic white and Mexican-origin mothers by maternal age reveals an infant survival advantage at younger maternal ages when compared with non-Hispanic whites, which is consistent with the Hispanic infant mortality paradox. However, this is accompanied by higher infant mortality at older ages...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 615–635.
Published: 17 October 2012
...Timothy B. Gage; Fu Fang; Erin O’Neill; Greg DiRienzo Abstract This research determines whether the observed decline in infant mortality with socioeconomic level, operationalized as maternal education (dichotomized as college or more, versus high school or less), is due to its “indirect” effect...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1551–1561.
Published: 17 April 2013
... 4 2013 © Population Association of America 2013 2013 Maternal education Reading skills Child mortality Nigeria Demographers and policy makers agree that mother’s formal schooling—even at the primary level—is associated with lower risk of child mortality. There is less...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1765–1790.
Published: 07 October 2019
... relationship between maternal education and under-5 mortality. To identify such a causal effect, we exploited exogenous variation in maternal education induced by schooling reforms introducing universal primary education in the second half of the 1990s in Malawi and Uganda. Using a two-stage residual inclusion...
FIGURES
Includes: Supplementary data
Image
in Maternal Age and Offspring Adult Health: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
> Demography
Published: 28 August 2012
Fig. 5 Maternal age and mortality. Estimates are based on a semiparametric lowess model. Black line corresponds to Model 1 and controls for only demographic characteristics birth year, age, age squared, sex, and race/ethnicity. Gray line corresponds to Model 4 and adds as controls maternal
More
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (1): 207–228.
Published: 02 October 2012
... Surveys and are increasingly being relied upon to estimate both general and maternal mortality. Until recently, the use of sibling histories was thought to lead to underestimates of mortality, but a more optimistic view in the literature emerged with the development by Gakidou and King (Demography 43:569...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
...-phase. We show that for cohorts aging during Sweden’s demographic and epidemiological transitions, the Q-phase became longer and more pronounced, reflecting the retreat of infections and maternal mortality as key causes of death. These changes revealed an underlying hazard trajectory that remains...
FIGURES
| View All (7)
Journal Article
Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1713–1737.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... This subgroup forms the population at risk for many important health indicators, such as fertility rates, maternal mortality, and measures of contraceptive prevalence. The model presented embeds a cohort component projection setup in a Bayesian framework, allowing uncertainty in data and population processes...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (1973) 10 (3): 447–458.
Published: 01 August 1973
... to a relatively neglected aspect of differential fertility, namely, the child’s perspective as opposed to the mother’s view. Limitations of the technique relating to quality of data, to multiple births, and to differentials in infant and maternal mortality are discussed, and possible applications in demography...
Journal Article
Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1181–1205.
Published: 01 August 2023
... were aged 16‒20 at the start of the conflict) having the highest risk of being HIV positive 10‒20 years after the violence, even after controlling for current socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Women who reported two or more sibling deaths, excluding those related to maternal mortality...
FIGURES
Includes: Supplementary data
Image
Published: 17 October 2012
Fig. 4 Standardized birth weight–specific mortalities by maternal education: European American males, 2001. The solid lines represent low education, and the dashed lines indicate high education. Corresponding fine lines are the bias-adjusted 95 % confidence intervals. Panel a represents
More
Image
in The Marital Implications of Bereavement: Child Death and Intimate Partner Violence in West and Central Africa
> Demography
Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 5 Marginal effects of maternal IPV history on the probability of child mortality. N = 118,219 children born more than five years before the survey. Marginal effects convey the difference in the predicted probability of dying before age 5 and are calculated from the results presented
More
Journal Article
Demography (2006) 43 (3): 569–585.
Published: 01 August 2006
... the mortality rate with both greatly reduced potential for bias and increased clarity about the source of necessary assumptions. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2006 2006 Root Mean Square Error Maternal Mortality Female Respondent Standard Estimator Adult Mortality...
Journal Article
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1905–1934.
Published: 20 August 2018
...Fig. 6 Estimated marginal effects: Predicted maternal mortality ratio by female political representation, extent of democratic institutionalization, and various indicators of economic and social development with other covariates held at their means ...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
Includes: Supplementary data
1
