Poster Session 5: Health and Mortality

Friday, Apr 2 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Constitution Ballroom 2nd Floor

1.	HIV/AIDS and Young Age Widowhood in Sub-Saharan Africa  •   Jacob Adetunji, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

2.	Unmet Health Needs for Sick Children in Mothers' Views in Rural Bangladesh  •   Nurul Alam, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research

3.	Diabetes Burden among Latinos  •   Flavia Andrade, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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The Relative Effects of Health Program Inputs and Household Socioeconomic Status on Use of Services in a Context of Targeted Program Placement: The Case of Nicaragua  •   Gustavo Angeles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Margel Beteta, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos - Nicaragua; Luis Blandon, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos - Nicaragua

5.

Relationship between Cancer and Aging: Experimental Evidence and Mathematical Modeling Considerations  •   Konstantin G. Arbeev, Duke University; Anna V. Semenchenko, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Vladimir N. Anisimov, N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology; Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Lyubov S. Arbeeva, Ulyanovsk State University

6.	Neighbors, Fertility and Endogenous Preferences  •   Solveig Argeseanu, University of Pennsylvania; Christopher R. Cunningham, Syracuse University

7.	Age and Time Patterns of Mortality by Cause in Italy: A Mortality Surface Approach  •   Elisabetta Barbi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Graziella Caselli, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; Anatoli Yashin, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

8.	Female Autonomy and Women's Nutritional Status in Egypt: Does Household Structure Matter?  •   Adina K. Batnitzky, Brown University

9.	The Chronic Burden of Diabetes: Exploring the Racial Gap in Functional Status among Older Americans  •   Latrica E. Best, Pennsylvania State University

10.	Provincial Estimates and Projections of HIV/AIDS in China  •   Simona Bignami, University of Pennsylvania

11.

Influence of Non-Biological Factors on Early Neonatal Mortality: Evidences from Some Selected States of India  •   Aparajita Chattopadhyay, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Ranjana Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Rajib Acharya, ORC Macro and Johns Hopkins University; Subrata Lahiri, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

12.	Factors Influencing Reproductive Choices of HIV Infected Married Women: A Prospective Cohort Study in Mumbai, India  •   Emily Das, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Naval G Daver, Grant Medical College

13.	Multivariate Cohort-Based Analysis of Individual Risk of Mortality in Malawi: The Effects of Children Ever Born and School Attainment  •   Henry V. Doctor, Navrongo Health Research Centre

14.	Maternal Health Behaviors and the Childhood Health Gradient  •   Jennifer Dowd, Princeton University

15.	Decomposing the Effects of Marital Trajectories on Health: A Discrete-Time Analysis of Transitions, Duration, Sequencing, and Timing across the Life Course  •   Matthew E. Dupre, Duke University; Sarah O. Meadows, Duke University

16.	Differential Adult Mortality by Underlying and Associated Causes of Death  •   Isaac W. Eberstein, Florida State University; Bryan M. Giblin, Florida State University; Charles Nam, Florida State University; Amy Walsh, Florida State University; Kyle Reese-Cassal, Florida State University

17.	Maternal Smoking, Prenatal Care, and Breastfeeding Initiation  •   Sylvia Ann Ellison, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC; Anjani Chandra, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

18.

Young Women and Violence in Russia: A Study of Homicide Victimization Rates  •   Natalia S. Gavrilova, University of Chicago; Victoria G. Semyonova, Ministry of Health, Russia; Galina N. Evdokushkina, Ministry of Health, Russia; Alla E. Ivanova, Ministry of Health, Russia; Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago

19.	A Happy Union between Biomarkers and the Social World? Examining the Validity of Proximate Allostatic Load  •   Omer Gersten, University of California, Berkeley

20.	Child Immunization in Rural West Bengal (India): A Multilevel Analysis  •   Atanu Ghosh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Laishram Ladusingh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

21.	Infant Mortality in Peru and Mexico: Effects of Migration  •   Shirin Hakimzadeh, Rice University

22.	The Social Determinants of Sleep: An Analysis Using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study  •   Lauren Hale, RAND

23.	Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Health, and Well-Being in a Less Developed Setting  •   Nathan R. Jones, University of California, Los Angeles

24.	Spatial Determinants of Childhood Morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Child Survival  •   Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, University of Southampton

25.	Visualizing the Accessibility and Spatial Equity of HIV-Related Services: A Geographic Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods  •   Catherine E. Kaukinen, Bowling Green State University; Christopher L. Fulcher, University of Missouri at Columbia

26.	Civic Engagement and Morbidity: Evidence from Poor Refugee Communities in Jordan  •   Marwan Khawaja, American University of Beirut; Mylene Salem-Tewtel, American University of Beirut; Maya I. Obeid, American University of Beirut; Matilda Saliba, American University of Beirut

27.	Mortality Dynamics of the U.S. Population by Race and Hispanic Origin: 1984-1999  •   Ward Kingkade, U.S. Census Bureau

28.	Rural-Urban Differences in Infant/Child Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa  •   Maxwell N. Kwenda, Bowling Green State University

29.	Race and Ethnic Disparities in Depression among Mothers in Los Angeles: Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Effects  •   Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo, RAND

30.	Decomposing Regional and Sex Mortality Differential in China 1999: The Causes of Death Perspective  •   Yong Li, Johns Hopkins University

31.	Family Health and Migration Decisions in the Early Years of Welfare Reform: Do Poverty and Social Support Change the Equation?  •   Dee C. May, Pennsylvania State University; Gordon F. De Jong, Pennsylvania State University

32.	Recent Infant Mortality Trends in Central America  •   Stephen D. McCracken, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Paul Stupp, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

33.	Modeling the Course of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in China: An Application of a Bio-Behavioral Macrosimulation Model of the Spread of HIV/AIDS  •   Giovanna Merli, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Sara Hertog, University of Wisconsin at Madison

34.	Neighborhood-Level Effects on Preterm and Very Preterm Birth among a Multi-Year Birth Cohort in Wake County, NC  •   Lynne Messer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jay S. Kaufman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Barbara A. Laraia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

35.	Migration and Risk of Health: Are Migrant Workers More Vulnerable to STI/HIV in India?  •   Sudipta Mondal, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Shiva S. Halli, University of Manitoba

36.	Religious Attendance, Age, and U.S. Adult Mortality  •   Benjamin Moulton, University of Texas at Austin; Robert A. Hummer, University of Texas at Austin; Richard G. Rogers, University of Colorado at Boulder

37.	Population, Urban Environment and Health in India  •   Dewaram A. Nagdeve, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

38.	Overweight and Depression during Adolescence  •   Belinda L. Needham, University of Texas at Austin; Robert Crosnoe, University of Texas at Austin

39.	Healthy Immigrant Effect in Canada: A Longitudinal Perspective Using National Population Health Surveys  •   Edward Ng, Statistics Canada; Russell Wilkins, Statistics Canada; Jean-Marie Berthelot, Statistics Canada

40.	Health Status, Urbanization, and Migration in Vietnam: Preliminary Findings from the 1997-98 Living Standard Survey  •   Liem T. Nguyen, Brown University

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Alcohol Consumption Is Associated with Increased All-Cause Mortality in Russian Men and Women: A Study Based on the Mortality of Relatives  •   Amanda Nicholson, University College London; Martin Bobak, University College London; Michael Murphy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Michael Marmot, University College London

42.	Changes in Household Composition and Orphan Living Situations in Selected African Countries Affected by HIV/AIDS  •   Florence Nyangara, Futures Group International

43.	Reasons of Emergence of Malaria in KBK Region of Orissa, India: An Anthropological Approach  •   Mahendra Panda, Indian Council of Medical Research

44.	Study of Risk Factors of Maternal Mortality in the Slum Populations of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India  •   Arvind Pandey, Indian Council of Medical Research; B.N. Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Institute

45.	Sexual Distress in Urban China: A Population-Based National Survey of Men and Women  •   William L. Parish, University of Chicago; Elena Obkuhova, University of Chicago; Suiming Pan, Renmin University of China; Fang Li, University of Chicago

46.	Household, Community, and Contextual Effects on Childhood Malnutrition in Rural India: A Multilevel Approach  •   S. Rajaram, J.S.S. Institute of Economic Research; Thankam Sunil, University of Texas at San Antonio

47.	Dual-Earner Couples: The Impact of Relative Income on the Prevalence of Heart Disease  •   Erin B. Reidy, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

48.	Does Women's Perception of Domestic Violence Have a Bearing on Reproductive Health and Health Seeking Practice in India? -- An Exploration Based on NFHS-2 Data  •   Nandini Roy, UNIFEM; Damodar Sahu, Institute for Research in Medical Statistics (ICMR)

49.	The Mortality Effects of Nepal's Vitamin A Distribution Program  •   Shea Rutstein, ORC Macro; Pav Govindasamy, ORC Macro

51.	Projecting the Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS: Alternative Scenarios  •   Cheryl C. Sawyer, United Nations

52.	Breastfeeding and Maternal HIV-1 Disease Progression and Mortality  •   Gilda Sedgh, Harvard University; Donna Spiegelman, Harvard University; Gernard Msamanga, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences; Wafaie W. Fawzi, Harvard University

53.

Comparative Health Risk Assessment for Environmental Pollution in North Chennai, India  •   Ravi P. Shankar, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute; Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute; Sankar Sambandam, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute; Padmavathi Ramaswami, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute

54.	Domestic Violence in India and Repercussion on Women's Health  •   Ajay Kumar Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Rabindra Kumar Sinha, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

56.	Social Networks, Membership, and Participation on Health Outcomes  •   Lai S. Tso, University of Michigan

57.	Measuring the Expectation for Life and the Spread of Violence in Latin America  •   Piedad Urdinola, University of California, Berkeley; Bernardo L. Queiroz, University of California, Berkeley

58.	A Multi-Dimensional Assessment of the Health of Working Age Vietnamese  •   Mark VanLandingham, Tulane University

59.	Aggregate Level Analysis of the Effect of Socioeconomic Factors on Neonatal, Postneonatal, and Infant Mortality in Peru, 2000  •   Tania R. Vasquez, University of Texas at Austin

60.	Physical Activity Patterns among Native Americans  •   Shu-Chuan Wang, Chung Shan Medical University; Ginger L. Gossman, University of Texas at Austin

61.	The Mediating Role of Cumulative Job Characteristics in SES-Health Relationships  •   John R. Warren, University of Minnesota; Jennie E. Brand, University of Wisconsin at Madison

62.	HIV/AIDS in Zambia: New Trends in Prevalence  •   Antonia M. Welch, Harvard University

63.	Accidents and Injuries among Shift Workers: A Neglected Dimension of Labor Force Inequality  •   Lijuan Wu, University of Maryland

64.	Social Capital and Self-Rated Health Status: Urban China in the 1990s  •   Qing Xiao, Utah State University

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