Poster Session 6:
Applied Demography, Methods, Health and Mortality
Gender Imbalance in the HIV Prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa • Jacob A. Adetunji, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Community-Based Interventions Can Change Detrimental Social Norms: Experience from the Navrongo Female Genital Mutilation Experiment • Philip B. Adongo, Navrongo Health Research Centre ; Elizabeth F. Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Livesy Abokyi, Navrongo Health Research Centre ; Reshma Naik, Navrongo Health Research Centre ; Ellie Feinglass, Population Council ; Patricia Akweongo, Navrongo Health Research Centre
Post-Census 2000 Population Estimates for the Municipios of Puerto Rico: Current Research at the Census Bureau • Bashiruddin Ahmed, U.S. Census Bureau ; Arjun Adlakha, U.S. Census Bureau ; Antonio Bruce, U.S. Census Bureau
Job Strain and Mortality among Men and Women in the United States • Benjamin Amick, University of Texas at Houston
Fertility Awareness-Based Guidelines for Postpartum Women • Marcos Arevalo, Georgetown University ; Irit Sinai, Georgetown University
World Population Changes from 1990 to 2005 Viewed through the Stationary Population Equivalent • Roger Avery, Brown University
Digging Deeper: Uses of Administrative Records at the U.S. Census Bureau • Lisa M. Blumerman, U.S. Census Bureau ; Carrie R. Simon, U.S. Census Bureau
Segregation and Obesity Prevalence among U.S. Adults • Jason D. Boardman, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Jarron M. Saint Onge, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Richard G. Rogers, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Justin T. Denney, University of Colorado at Boulder
Underestimated Life Expectancy as a Principal Risk to Commercial Pension Insurance System in the Czech Republic • Boris Burcin, Charles University, Prague ; Tomas Kucera, Charles University, Prague
School Capacities Reduction: Geodemographic Background Study for Decision Making Process (an Inner Prague District Case Study) • Boris Burcin, Charles University, Prague ; Eva Caithamlova, Charles University, Prague ; Zdenek Cermak, Charles University, Prague ; Tomas Kucera, Charles University, Prague
Explaining the Latino Asthma Advantage: The Role of Neighborhood Social Context • Kathleen A. Cagney, University of Chicago ; Christopher Browning, Ohio State University ; Danielle Wallace, University of Chicago
Small Area Population Estimates by Demographic Characteristics: A Case Study for 170 Census Tracts in Multnomah County, Oregon • Qian Cai, Portland State University
Adjusting for Unequal Selection Probability in Structural Equation and Multilevel Models: Applications to Demographic Survey Data • Kim Chantala, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; C. M. Suchindran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Estimating Causal Relationships in NAEP • Duncan Chaplin, Urban Institute ; Sheila Isanaka, Urban Institute ; Austin Nichols, Urban Institute
Quality of Primary Care by Race, Ethnicity and Language among Medicaid Children in California: The Role of Managed Care • Arpita Chattopadhyay, University of California, San Francisco
Neither Here nor There: Using GIS to Integrate Data from Incongruent Geographic Areas • Jana Chavers, College of William and Mary ; Laura C. Nixon, College of William and Mary ; Kate C. Dykgraaf, College of William and Mary ; Amin Vafa, College of William and Mary
The Effects of “Color” in Individual and Family Levels on Child Mortality in São Paulo, Brazil • Kuniko Chijiwa, University of Florida
Residential Duration in an Unusual and New Destination State (Utah) and the Health of Hispanics • Youngtae Cho, Seoul National University ; E. Helen Berry, Utah State University ; Michael B. Toney, Utah State University
Spatial Clustering of Cause Specific Mortality • Jeralynn S. Cossman, Mississippi State University ; Wesley James, Mississippi State University ; Ronald E. Cossman, Mississippi State University
A Quantitative Analysis of the Relative Effects of the Components of Change Used in Postcensal County Population Estimates • Sam T. Davis, U.S. Census Bureau
Violence against Women and Depression in Rural Ethiopia • Negussie Deyessa, Public Health ; Yemane Berhane, Public Health ; Atalay Alem, Addis Ababa University ; Mary Ellsberg, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) ; Ulf Hogberg, Umea University ; Gunnar Kulgren, Umea University
Determinants of Malnutrition among Children in India • A. Dharmalingam, University of Waikato ; T. Alesan, Kamaraj College
Caste Differentials in Child Mortality in India • PremChand Dommaraju, Arizona State University
Covariate Analysis of Multistate Life Tables: Application to Women’s Contraceptive Dynamics • C. M. Suchindran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Tzy-Mey (May) Kuo, Research Triangle Institute ; Helen P. Koo, Research Triangle Institute
The Demographic Impact of AIDS Mortality among the Adult Population in 56 Countries • Brynn G. Epstein, U.S. Census Bureau ; Laura M. Heaton, U.S. Census Bureau
Change in Suicide Rate Attributable to Individual’s Treatment with Antidepressants • Annette Erlangsen, Aarhus Universitet ; Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Pennsylvania State University ; Yeates Conwell, University of Rochester
Demography, Socioeconomics, and Geography: Endeavoring to Explain Land Cover Change in and around the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, Ecuador • Christine M. Erlien, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Carlos F. Mena, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Alisson F. Barbieri, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Stephen J. Walsh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Direct Access to Emergency Contraception through Pharmacies • Diana G. Foster, University of California, San Francisco ; Sharon Cohen ; Nicole Monastersky ; Frances Chung, Public Health Institute ; Nancy Kim ; Mackenzie Melton, Public Health Institute
No Somos Una Caja, Somos UN Todo: Ethnomedicine and Globalization in Southern Chile • Hanna Garth, Rice University
Benchmarking Census Same-Sex Unmarried Partner Data with Other Glbt Survey Data • Gary J. Gates, Urban Institute ; Christopher Carpenter, University of California, Irvine
Pond Water Contamination And Incidence of Disease in Rural Bangladesh • Azizur R. Molla, Pennsylvania State University
Does the Birth Order Affect the Cognitive Development of a Child? • Frank Heiland, Florida State University
The Influence of Climatic Variations on Child Survival in Burkina Faso • Sabine J.F. Henry, Université de Montréal ; Stéphanie Dos Santos, Université de Montréal
The Life Table without the Civil Registration System: Alternative Models of Indonesian Mortality • Mira M. Hidajat, Pennsylvania State University ; Latrica E. Best, Pennsylvania State University
Standard Days Method: Discontinuation and Program Effectiveness • Claudia Velasquez, Georgetown University ; Ernesto Pinto, CEMOPLAF ; Rebecka I. Lundgren, Georgetown University
The Effects of Sociodemographic Characteristics, Risky Behavior, and Prior Depression on Psychological Well-Being in Young Adulthood • Maria Johnson Kriechbaum, University of California, Los Angeles ; Laura Piersol, University of California, Los Angeles
The Global Tobacco Surveillance System: “Purpose, Production, and Potential” • Nathan R. Jones, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ; Charles Warren, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ; Samira Asma, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
American Community Survey Data on the Foreign-Born Population: PUMS Files and Detailed Tables • Alexa Kennedy-Puthoff, U.S. Census Bureau
A New Efficient Algorithm for Construction of GOM Models • Mikhail Kovtun, Duke University ; Igor Akushevich, Duke University ; Kenneth G. Manton, Duke University ; H. Dennis Tolley, Brigham Young University
The Provision of Public-Sector Family Planning Services: U.S. Family Planning Clinics in 2003 • Laura Lindberg, The Alan Guttmacher Institute ; Jennifer J. Frost, The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The Impact of Program Design Changes on Access to Publicly Funded Family Planning Services in California • M. Catherine Maternowska, University of California, San Francisco ; Claire Brindis, University of California, San Francisco ; Antonia Biggs ; Denis Hulett, UCSF Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy ; Philip Darney, University of California, San Francisco ; Felicia Stewart, University of California, San Francisco ; Diana G. Foster, University of California, San Francisco ; J. Joseph Speidel, UCSF Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy ; Sara Laufer, University of California, San Francisco ; Deborah Weiss, University of California, San Francisco
Tube-Wells as a Community Health Intervention: Can They Be Effective in Bangladesh? • Azizur R. Molla, Pennsylvania State University ; Gretchen Cornwell, Pennsylvania State University
Bootstrap to Study Completeness of Adult Mortality Surveillance • Bhamidipati Narasimhamurthy, National Institute of Epidemiology ; M. D. Gupte, National Institute of Epidemiology ; A. K. Mathai, National Institute of Epidemiology ; S. Jabbar, National Institute of Epidemiology ; S. Venkata Subramanian, National Institute of Epidemiology
Maternal Employment in Early Childhood and the Risk of Overweight in Adolescence • Atsuko Nonoyama, Alcorn State University ; Pippa Simpson, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; Jeffrey M. Gossett, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; C. Shannon Stokes, Pennsylvania State University
Health Seeking Behavior and Child Health Outcome: Malaria Treatment and Preventive Behavior in Kenya and Zimbabwe • Tom O. Owuor, Pennsylvania State University ; William Sambisa, Pennsylvania State University ; Peter Moyi, Pennsylvania State University
Context and Child Health in Rural Districts of India: The Effect of Women’s Education at the Community Level • Sangeeta Parashar, University of Maryland
Multiple causes of death related to HIV/AIDS in two Brazilian cities: São Paulo and Santos, 2001 • Claudia Cristina de Aguiar Pereira, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (CEDEPLAR) ; Carla J. Machado, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais ; Roberto do Nascimento Rodrigues, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
The Impact of Social Networks on Depression: Education Effect Focusing on Age and Gender Differences • Hyeyoung Woo, University of Texas at Austin
Evaluating County Population Projections Using a Century of Census Data • Stefan Rayer, University of Florida
Health Intervention and Health Equity: Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh • Abdur Razzaque, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research ; Peter Kim Streatfield, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research
The Demographic Dynamics of Migration in Coastal Ghana • Holly E. Reed, Brown University ; Michael J. White, Brown University ; Catherine N. Stiff, Brown University
Evaluating Poverty Alleviation through Microcredit: Methodological and Empirical Evidence from Indonesia • Chikako Yamauchi, University of California, Los Angeles
Stochastic Small Area Population Forecasting until 2015 for Hospital Planning in Rostock, East Germany • Sabine Schnabel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Klaus Dahmen, University of Rostock
Risk Perception and Response to Perceived Risk Models: Findings from the Slums of Nairobi • Yetty Shobo, Pennsylvania State University
Child Health in Peru: Importance of Regional Variation and Community Effects on Children’s Height and Weight • Heeju Shin, University of Texas at Austin
Provider Networks and Quality of Care for Reproductive Health Services in Nepal • Dominic Montagu, University of California, San Francisco ; Ndola Prata, University of California, Berkeley ; Robert McPherson, Independant Consultant ; Anand Tamang, Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities, Kathmandu
An Interactive Demographic Approach to Projecting the Supply of Nurses by State • Richard A. Smiley, NCSBN
Spuits, Stuips, and Saline Drips: Health-Seeking Behaviour for Childhood Illnesses in Urban South Africa • Natalie Spark-du Preez, Loughborough University ; Paula Griffiths, Loughborough University ; Noel Cameron, Loughborough University
Child Health-Related Behaviors in Southern Ghana: Is Health Knowledge Important? • Catherine N. Stiff, Brown University