Poster Session 6: Applied Demography, Methods, Health and Mortality

Friday, April 1 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Franklin Hall Level 4

1.	Gender Imbalance in the HIV Prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa  •  Jacob A. Adetunji, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

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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

3.	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

4.	Job Strain and Mortality among Men and Women in the United States  •  Benjamin Amick, University of Texas at Houston

5.	Fertility Awareness-Based Guidelines for Postpartum Women  •  Marcos Arevalo, Georgetown University; Irit Sinai, Georgetown University

6.	World Population Changes from 1990 to 2005 Viewed through the Stationary Population Equivalent  •  Roger Avery, Brown University

7.	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

8.	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

9.	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

10.

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

11.	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

12.	Small Area Population Estimates by Demographic Characteristics: A Case Study for 170 Census Tracts in Multnomah County, Oregon  •  Qian Cai, Portland State University

13.	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

14.	Estimating Causal Relationships in NAEP  •  Duncan Chaplin, Urban Institute; Sheila Isanaka, Urban Institute; Austin Nichols, Urban Institute

15.	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

16.	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

17.	The Effects of “Color” in Individual and Family Levels on Child Mortality in São Paulo, Brazil  •  Kuniko Chijiwa, University of Florida

18.	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

19.	Spatial Clustering of Cause Specific Mortality  •  Jeralynn S. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Wesley James, Mississippi State University; Ronald E. Cossman, Mississippi State University

20.	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

21.	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

22.	Determinants of Malnutrition among Children in India  •  A. Dharmalingam, University of Waikato; T. Alesan, Kamaraj College

23.	Caste Differentials in Child Mortality in India  •  PremChand Dommaraju, Arizona State University

24.	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

25.	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

26.	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

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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

28.	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

29.	No Somos Una Caja, Somos UN Todo: Ethnomedicine and Globalization in Southern Chile  •  Hanna Garth, Rice University

30.	Benchmarking Census Same-Sex Unmarried Partner Data with Other Glbt Survey Data  •  Gary J. Gates, Urban Institute; Christopher Carpenter, University of California, Irvine

31.	Pond Water Contamination And Incidence of Disease in Rural Bangladesh  •  Azizur R. Molla, Pennsylvania State University

32.	Does the Birth Order Affect the Cognitive Development of a Child?  •  Frank Heiland, Florida State University

33.	The Influence of Climatic Variations on Child Survival in Burkina Faso  •  Sabine J.F. Henry, Université de Montréal; Stéphanie Dos Santos, Université de Montréal

34.	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

35.	Standard Days Method: Discontinuation and Program Effectiveness  •  Claudia Velasquez, Georgetown University; Ernesto Pinto, CEMOPLAF; Rebecka I. Lundgren, Georgetown University

36.	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

37.	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)

38.	American Community Survey Data on the Foreign-Born Population: PUMS Files and Detailed Tables  •  Alexa Kennedy-Puthoff, U.S. Census Bureau

39.	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

40.	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

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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

42.	Tube-Wells as a Community Health Intervention: Can They Be Effective in Bangladesh?  •  Azizur R. Molla, Pennsylvania State University; Gretchen Cornwell, Pennsylvania State University

44.

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

45.

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

46.	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

47.	Context and Child Health in Rural Districts of India: The Effect of Women’s Education at the Community Level  •  Sangeeta Parashar, University of Maryland

48.

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

49.	The Impact of Social Networks on Depression: Education Effect Focusing on Age and Gender Differences  •  Hyeyoung Woo, University of Texas at Austin

50.	Evaluating County Population Projections Using a Century of Census Data  •  Stefan Rayer, University of Florida

51.	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

52.	The Demographic Dynamics of Migration in Coastal Ghana  •  Holly E. Reed, Brown University; Michael J. White, Brown University; Catherine N. Stiff, Brown University

53.	Evaluating Poverty Alleviation through Microcredit: Methodological and Empirical Evidence from Indonesia  •  Chikako Yamauchi, University of California, Los Angeles

54.	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

55.	Risk Perception and Response to Perceived Risk Models: Findings from the Slums of Nairobi  •  Yetty Shobo, Pennsylvania State University

56.	Child Health in Peru: Importance of Regional Variation and Community Effects on Children’s Height and Weight  •  Heeju Shin, University of Texas at Austin

57.

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

58.	An Interactive Demographic Approach to Projecting the Supply of Nurses by State  •  Richard A. Smiley, NCSBN

59.	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

60.	Child Health-Related Behaviors in Southern Ghana: Is Health Knowledge Important?  •  Catherine N. Stiff, Brown University

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