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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 299–322.
Published: 01 August 1987
... Health , 76 , 387 – 391 . 10.2105/AJPH.76.4.387 DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 24, Number 3 August 1987 SOCIAL FACTORS AND INFANT MORTALITY: IDENTIFYING HIGH-RISK GROUPS AND PROXIMATE CAUSES James C. Cramer Sociology Department, University of California, Davis, California 95616 The infant mortality rate...
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in Cognitive Disparities: The Impact of the Great Depression and Cumulative Inequality on Later-Life Cognitive Function
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Published: 21 November 2017
Fig. 2 Social trajectory model: Predicted probabilities of risk factors by cohort, net of sex, race/ethnicity, and early-life SES. Time-variant outcomes are also adjusted for age
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 353–368.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Jason D. Boardman; Daniel A. Powers; Yolanda C. Padilla; Robert A. Hummer Abstract We used six waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Data (1986–1996) to assess the relative impact of adverse birth outcomes vis-à-vis social risk factors on children’s developmental outcomes. Using...
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 287–303.
Published: 01 May 1992
..., the racial gap in overall mortality could close completely with increased standards of living and improved lifestyles. Moreover, examining cause-specific mortality while adjusting for social factors shows that compared to whites, blacks have a lower mortality risk from respiratory diseases, accidents...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 555–578.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... Speci¿ cally, we seek to explain sex differences in mortality by (1) accounting for differences in the distribution of both social and biological protective and risk factors by sex, including socioeconomic status (SES), social relationships, health behaviors, and biological indicators of health; (2...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1631–1656.
Published: 16 August 2016
.... In essence, FCT asserts that mechanisms are replaced as individuals, households, and social groups deploy unequally distributed SES-related resources to gain privileged access to protective factors and to help avoid risk factors. However, the profile of such factors is situational and must thus be placed...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1037–1060.
Published: 17 May 2012
... to include ever more informative inputs and to continue to reduce uncertainties in Social Security forecasts. 3 4 2012 17 5 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Our approach formally incorporates the largest known risk factors with biological effects (tobacco consumption...
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2007
... in adolescence, which in turn increases the likelihood of heart attacks in adulthood (Montgomery, Berney, and Blane 2000). A growing body of evidence illuminates the multiple social, environmental, biological, and genetic factors that contribute to heart attack risk over the life course. Although...
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 May 2005
... Loss in Egypt . Social Biology , 47 ( 3–4 ), 218 – 43 . García-Enguídanos , A. , Calle , M.E. , Valero , J. , Luna , S. , & Dominguez-Rojas , V. ( 2002 ). Risk Factors in Miscarriage: A Review . European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology...
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 February 2007
... and substantial effects on risk perceptions and the adoption of new behaviors even after we control for unobserved factors. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2007 2007 Social Network Ordinary Little Square Risk Perception Network Partner High Risk Perception References...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2139–2167.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to be a reasonable basis for provisionally treating residence in such places as one of our primary risk factors. Finally, place of residence may affect children's poverty risk by shaping the economic opportunity structure for their parents. Local social ties and community institutions constitute important...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1351–1375.
Published: 13 September 2016
... of these factors have changed over the last few decades, pointing toward the important role of changing social context on marital trajectories. 3 8 2016 13 9 2016 © Population Association of America 2016 2016 Marital dissolution Divorce Marriage Rural South Asia A solid...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1873–1895.
Published: 05 September 2017
... squarely rest on the social shaping of health paradigm. Initially proposed to move the “modern school” of epidemiology beyond only proximate biological causes of disease, the FCT reasons that social factors, such as educational attainment, put people at more or less risk of more-proximate causes of disease...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1655–1685.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that the children of exogamous families are at especially high risk of developing psychopathological disorders. These results provide strong support for the hypothesis that children of exogamous families constitute a specific health risk group and that the impact on children's health of family social and material...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1357–1382.
Published: 01 July 2015
... operate before and after adjustment for established health risk factors, including socioeconomic status (SES), health behaviors, and social networks/support and well-being. Intersectionality theory posits that gender and sexual identity interact in multiplicative ways to produce unique social...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2125–2158.
Published: 21 November 2017
...Fig. 2 Social trajectory model: Predicted probabilities of risk factors by cohort, net of sex, race/ethnicity, and early-life SES. Time-variant outcomes are also adjusted for age ...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2021–2049.
Published: 02 November 2015
... parity is associated with obesity and coronary heart disease for both men and women, whereby lifestyle factors associated with high parity may lead to increased risks of morbidity (Lawlor et al. 2003 ). Increased parity may not necessarily translate to increased social support. Smith et al. ( 2002...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 95–113.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that individuals are uniquely qualified to predict their own mortality based on their own genetic background, as well as environmental and behavioral risk factors that are often known only to the individual. Given this private information, individuals form expectations about survival probabilities that may provide...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 273–285.
Published: 01 May 1999
... and, conse-quently, to die. However, religious attendance also works through increased social ties and behavioral factors to decrease the risks of death. And although the magnitude of the association between religious attendance and mortality varies by cause of death, the direction of the association...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 231–247.
Published: 01 May 1995
... Youth Panel, I construct a causal model of birthweight containing exogenous social and demographic risk factors and intervening proximate determinants of birthweight. A substantial part of the gap in birthweight between white Anglos and other ethnic groups (especially blacks) can be explained...
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