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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 525–538.
Published: 01 March 1968
... will not show decline soon. This is because control of the automobile hazard, which involves motor vehicle design, road construction, and driver education will come slowly. Public health measures for the control of suicide are also slow in development; both suicide and homicide are essentially social problems...
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Demography (1969) 6 (3): 223–242.
Published: 01 August 1969
... had set in before that. After 1930, however, in both groups of countries the pace of decline was faster than ever, and it was virtually the same for both groups, suggesting that after that date public health measures were exerting a strong influence independently of local economic development...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1233–1247.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Jennifer March Augustine; Kate Prickett Abstract Public health measures aimed at curbing the transmission of COVID-19 increased parenting responsibilities during the early stages of the pandemic. This research note examines time-use data from the American Time Use Surveys to provide several fresh...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 901–931.
Published: 01 June 2024
... effect of retirement on biological age has important implications for an increase in the State Pension eligibility age and its potential consequences on population health, public health care policy, and older people's labor force participation. Overall, this study provides novel empirical evidence...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 679–706.
Published: 16 January 2019
... al. 2016 )—but also experienced an unprecedented increase in real income, measured (for instance) at 2 % in per capita terms (Schön and Krantz 2012 ). Comparing cohorts before and after the public health investments can be misleading because some share of the differences may relate to secular...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 359–392.
Published: 02 December 2011
... about inequalities in education, health care use, fertility, and child mortality, as well as labor market outcomes, are quite robust to the economic status measure used. Different measures—most significantly per capita expenditures versus the class of asset indices—do not, however, yield identical...
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 597–609.
Published: 01 November 1988
... Administrative Area Public Health Measure References Aykroyd , W. R. , & Kevany , J. P. ( 1973 ). Mortality in infancy and early childhood in Ireland, Scotland, and England and Wales, 1871 to 1970 . Ecology of Food and Nutrition , 2 , 11 – 19 . 10.1080/03670244.1973.9990310...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 519–527.
Published: 01 November 1998
... in both the demographic and public-health literatures in which patently postnatal (i.e., ex utero ) measures are taken as outcomes interesting in their own right and/or as risk factors for infant mortality and infant and childhood morbidity. Specifically, he does recognize that we purposefully expanded...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 83–111.
Published: 09 January 2015
... responding “Didn’t care” can be classified as intended, unwanted, or missing, depending on the focus of the analysis ( n = 34 for our analysis; coded as intended). 2 Staff at the National Center for Health Statistics now use this four-category measure in their publications of NSFG analyses...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1363–1388.
Published: 05 July 2018
... uncertainty measures about the completeness of death records (Murray et al. 2010 ). Small-area mortality estimation is a challenge for demographers and public health researchers for two main reasons. First, there is the universal problem of small populations and high sampling variability in recorded...
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 301–315.
Published: 01 August 1970
... and growing resistance to dis- ease of the population. An alternative hypothesis would emphasize the intro- duction of public health measures in the form of social and preventative medicine as the responsible factor for mortality decline. Here the emphasis would not be on the improved physical condition...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 367–386.
Published: 04 February 2014
... conferences appear to have no beneficial impact on either whites or nonwhites. The variable measuring public health nurse visits per 1,000 population is statistically significant for whites but is only marginally statistically significant for nonwhites ( p value of .106). Nevertheless, the estimated...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2005
.... , & Rotella , E.J. ( 2001 ). Death and Spending: Urban Mortality and Municipal Expenditure on Sanitation . Annales de Demographie Historique , 1 , 139 – 54 . Condran , G.A. , & Crimmins-Gardner , E. ( 1978 ). Public Health Measures and Mortality in U.S. Cities in the Late...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1371–1388.
Published: 13 June 2019
... differentials between rural and urban areas of states in the northeast United States, 1890–1900 . Journal of Historical Geography , 6 , 179 – 202 . 10.1016/0305-7488(80)90111-5 . Condran , G. A. , & Crimmins-Gardner , E. ( 1978 ). Public health measures and mortality in U.S. cities...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 429–443.
Published: 01 November 1999
..., 1890–1900 . Journal of Historical Geography , 6 , 179 – 202 . 10.1016/0305-7488(80)90111-5 Condran , G.A. , & Crimmins-Gardner , E. ( 1978 ). Public Health Measures and Mortality in U.S. Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century . Human Ecology , 6 , 27 – 54 . 10.1007...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 97–123.
Published: 01 February 1982
... Records, Phil- adelphia, 1880-81. Unpublished paper. -- and Eileen Crimmins. 1980. Mortality Dif- ferentials between Rural and Urban Areas of States in the Northeastern United States, 1890- 1900, Journal of Historical Geography, 6(2):179- 202. --and Eileen Crimmins-Gardner, 1978.Public Health Measures...
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 647–657.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of the existing LEs that were computed by interpolation. eriod life expectancy summarizes the current age-speci c death rates for a population (Swanson and Siegel 2002: chap. 13). Life expectancies are primary public health measures that can be compared across nations, large subpopulations, or years; life...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 953–977.
Published: 05 May 2020
... experienced its industrial breakthrough, with rapid mechanization of agriculture and increasing urbanization and real wages for workers (Schön 2010 ). From about 1850, adult mortality started its continuous decline (von Hofsten and Lundström 1976 ). New public health measures, such as improved education...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 354–361.
Published: 01 March 1968
... out of the five female populations, the rank order coefficient of correlation is -1.00 and in the others it is in the predicted direction. These data suggest the following inter- pretation. For any given country, medical technology and public health measures (or, more simply, health technics) affect...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 119–137.
Published: 01 February 2002
... that of the 37% of the decline in functional limitations attrib- utable to chronic disease rates, 9% can be accounted for by reduced rates of infectious diseases and 7% by shifts in occupations.8 Public health measures that reduced crowding, improved sanitation, and produced filtered and chlorinated water; swamp...
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