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Measurement of cumulative physiological dysregulation in an older population

Christopher L. Seplaki, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein, Yu-Hsuan Lin
Demography (2006) 43 (1): 165–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2006.0009
Published: 01 February 2006
... of America 2006 2006 Ordinary Little Square Allostatic Load Primary Mediator Pure Type Medical Exam References N.E. Adler , M. Marmot , B.S. McEwen , & J. Stewart ( 1999 ). Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrialized Nations: Social, Psychological...
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Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men

Dora L. Costa
Demography (2002) 39 (1): 119–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0003
Published: 01 February 2002
... White Union Army Noninstitutionalized Noninstitutionalized veterans surviving to white men white men 1900 and linked to 1900 census Source Information Full medical exam- Specific questions to Specific questions ination of 3 surgeons examining doctor/ to self (free form) clinician (D) and to self (S...
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Health Insurance and the Aging: Evidence From the Seguro Popular Program in Mexico

Susan W. Parker, Joseph Saenz, Rebeca Wong
Demography (2018) 55 (1): 361–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0645-4
Published: 22 January 2018
...   Prostate exam in past two years 0.10 0.29 0.09 0.28 0.76   Gynecological exam past two years 0.51 0.50 0.58 0.49 0.11   Hypertension test in past two years 0.57 0.50 0.62 0.49 0.13   For those with hypertension, taking medication 0.54 0.50 0.52 0.50 0.77   For those...
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The Genome-Wide Influence on Human BMI Depends on Physical Activity, Life Course, and Historical Period

Guang Guo, Hexuan Liu, Ling Wang, Haipeng Shen, Wen Hu
Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1651–1670.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0421-2
Published: 29 August 2015
.... These individuals are of predominantly European origin. About 1 % of the subjects self-report as native, black, and Asian American. All study subjects undergo physical exams and complete written questionnaires at regular intervals. Weight and height were measured on FHS subjects repeatedly at dozens of medical...
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Gender, resources across the life course, and cognitive functioning in Egypt

Kathryn M. Yount
Demography (2008) 45 (4): 907–926.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0034
Published: 01 November 2008
... with men, women have lower Modified-Mini Mental Status Exam (M-MMSE) scores for overall cognitive functioning. Cognitive resources in childhood and adulthood are jointly associated with the M-MMSE score. About 83% of the gender gap in mean M-MMSE scores is attributable to gaps in men’s and women’s...
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Investigating the mechanism of marital mortality reduction: The transition to widowhood and quality of health care

Lei Jin, Nicholas A. Chrisatakis
Demography (2009) 46 (3): 605–625.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0066
Published: 01 August 2009
... of care changed around the transition to widowhood. The average rates of diabetic eye exam and hemoglobin A1c monitoring among eligible diabetes patients in a given month were 3.6% and 2.5%, respectively. On average, 13% of the individuals who were at risk for in uenza vaccination got the vaccination...
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Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up

Dora L. Costa
Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1185–1206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0125-9
Published: 12 September 2012
... of scurvy in the surgeons’ exams (the third regression in Table  4 ) did not change the results, either. 14 The hazard ratio on an interaction between POW status and wartime rheumatic fever was not statistically significant (results not shown). Controlling for arteriosclerosis, valvular heart disease...
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School Starting Age, Fertility, and Family Formation: Evidence From the School Entry Cutoff Using Exact Date of Birth

Kathryn Christine Beck, Rannveig Kaldager Hart, Martin Flatø
Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1999–2026.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11686231
Published: 01 December 2024
... of the effect of being born after December 31 on children's education Variable GPA Rank (1) GPA ( z score) (2) English 5th Exam ( z score) (3) English 8th Exam ( z score) (4) Reading 5th Exam ( z score) (5) Females Born after cutoff 0.004 0.013 −0.018 −0.003 −0.018...
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What difference would it make if cancer were eradicated? An examination of the taeuber paradox

Nathan Keyfitz
Demography (1977) 14 (4): 411–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060587
Published: 01 November 1977
... of the deaths from the ith cause, where 15 is an arbitrary or hypothetical number like 0.01. As an introduction to the technique, let us disregard cause of death and exam- ine the effect on eo of a fractional improve- ment in the age-specific death rates at all ages. If the chance of dying in the next dx...
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The geometric mean of the age-specific death rates as a summary index of mortality

Robert Schoen
Demography (1970) 7 (3): 317–324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060150
Published: 01 August 1970
... for Population a should be twice the index for Population b, and so forth. This would not be so, for-exam- pIe, if our index were the life table death rate (that is to say equal to Ijeo, the (2) reciprocal of the expectation of life at birth). Third, the index should be in- dependent of differences in the age...
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Parental leave: The impact of recent legislation on parents’ leave taking

Wen-Jui Han, Jane Waldfogel
Demography (2003) 40 (1): 191–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0003
Published: 01 February 2003
... statutes and the FMLA on changes in leave taking by fathers is therefore of particular interest. We used data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to exam- ine the impact of leave entitlements on the use of unpaid leave by women and men in the first months after the birth of a child...
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A mathematical model for resource allocation in population programs

Charles E. Lawrence, Axel I. Mundigo, Charles S. ReVelle
Demography (1972) 9 (3): 465–483.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060867
Published: 01 August 1972
... (with a stop watch) blood pressure measurements, Pap smear tests, physical exams, form filling, etc.-and on client flow, that is, timing patients as they moved through the various basic clinic tasks (time-motion). By means of a tracer card, family planning and other patients were counted and data gathered...
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Health Measurement in Population Surveys: Combining Information from Self-reported and Observer-Measured Health Indicators

George B. Ploubidis, Emily Grundy
Demography (2011) 48 (2): 699–724.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0028-1
Published: 20 April 2011
... with GCE A level or equivalent qualifications (exams normally taken around age 18); the third, respondents with O levels, CSE qualifications, or equivalent (exams taken at age 16); the fourth, those with foreign qualifications; and the fifth, those without a formal educational qualification. Housing tenure...
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How India is tackling her population problem

S. Chandrasekhar
Demography (1968) 5 (2): 642–650.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060254
Published: 01 June 1968
... is to present only a few simple messages, in a few words, repeated in the same form in all possible media. An exam- ple of this approach is the use of the happy faces of the "family of four" with the slo- gan "Two or three children-enough" and the Red Triangle to identify the program and the location of family...
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Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans

Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn
Demography (2010) 47 (1): 45–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0095
Published: 01 February 2010
... medical records are available for veterans because any veteran who applied for a pension or who wished for a pension increase was examined by a board of surgeons. Ninety-three percent of all men on the pension rolls had an exam. Those who applied on 50 Demography, Volume 47-Number 1, February 2010...
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Continuous and robust measures of the overweight epidemic: 1971–2000

Dean Jolliffe
Demography (2004) 41 (2): 303–314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2004.0015
Published: 01 May 2004
...) (0.18) (0.37) (0.45) (0.55) OW2 Severity 2.6 2.7 4.2 5.1 7.2 174 (0.13) (0.11) (0.24) (0.38) (0.39) Average overweight gap 18 18 21 22 27 Overweight population (in millions) 50.7 57.1 79.9 91.6 104 Notes: Indices are multiplied by 100 and estimated with the exam sample weights. Standard errors...
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Geographic morbidity differentials in the late nineteenth-century United States

Cheryl Elman, George C. Myers
Demography (1999) 36 (4): 429–443.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648082
Published: 01 November 1999
... Fund data. He noted that as in- fectious-disease mortality declined over the period for per- sons of all ages, old-age mortality from chronic diseases must have risen for mortality rates to have increased or re- mained constant. Few historical studies in the United States have exam- ined general...
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Mortality Trends in Philadelphia: Age- and Cause-Specific Death Rates 1870–1930

Gretchen A. Condran, Rose A. Cheney
Demography (1982) 19 (1): 97–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061131
Published: 01 February 1982
.... Increasingly, however, the change in mortality has been viewed not as a single phenomenon, but rather as a number of transitions differing in both timing and cause within national bound- aries. Urban mortality rates, for exam- ple, remained high for some time after rural mortality rates had begun their de...
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The contribution of medical measures to the decline of mortality from respiratory tuberculosis: An ageperiod-cohort model

James J. Collins
Demography (1982) 19 (3): 409–427.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060979
Published: 01 August 1982
... that are acquired as a result of aging, the more likely further disease and death become. The best way to avoid disease is to never contract any disease. For exam- ple, elimination of even trivial diseases like measles and the common cold during childhood may effectively lessen the dis- ease tendency in adult life...
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Women’s health and pregnancy outcomes: Do services make a difference?

Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duncan Thomas
Demography (2001) 38 (2): 253–265.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2001.0014
Published: 01 May 2001
... fieldworkers, are responsible for conducting TABLE 1. SERVICE PROVISION BY VILLAGE MIDWIVES Type of Service Percentage Who Provide Maternity Care Prenatal exam 98 Delivery assistance 91 Tetanus toxoid injection 66 Family Planning Oral contraceptives 91 IUD insertions 41 Injectable contraceptives 94 Children s...
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