Poster Session 5: Health, Mortality, Aging, Biology

Friday, March 31 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Pasadena Room Below Lobby

1.	Early Childhood Nutrition, Schooling and Within-Sibling Inequality in a Dynamic Context: Evidence from South Africa  •  Futoshi Yamauchi, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

2.	Trends in Diabetes and Obesity Prevalence in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of the Literature and New Estimates  •  Flavia Andrade, University of Wisconsin at Madison

3.	Ethnicity, Acculturation and Self-Assessed Health among Retirement-Aged and Older Adults  •  Ann D. Bagchi, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

4.	Association of Leg Length with Mortality: Evidence From NHANES I  •  Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania

5.	Health Stocks and Health Flows in an Empirical Model of Expected Longevity  •  Hugo Benitez-Silva, Stony Brook University, State University of New York; Huan Ni, Stony Brook University, State University of New York

6.	Endogenous Mortality and the Quantity and Quality of Children  •  Javier A Birchenall, University of California, Santa Barbara

7.	Mental Health Insurance Plans’ Constituents: In Sickness and in Health?  •  Mélanie Bourque, McGill University; Sean Clouston, McGill University; Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, McGill University

8.	A Time-Series Test of Diminished Entelechy in Birth Cohorts  •  Tim-Allen Bruckner, University of California, Berkeley; Ralph Catalano, University of California, Berkeley

9.	Why Do Hispanics Report Poorer Health Status than Whites?  •  Sharon Bzostek, Princeton University

10.	Mortality of Chinese Female Oldest Old: Does It Differ among Support Patterns & Living Arrangements?  •  Tianji Cai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Qiong Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles

11.	Population Decline Induced by Gonorrhea and Tuberculosis Transmission: Micronesia during the Japanese Occupation, 1919 – 1945  •  Susan L. Cassels, University of Washington

12.	Socioeconomic and Gender Differences in Health Status and Living Arrangements of the Elderly in India  •  Anoshua Chaudhuri, San Francisco State University; Kakoli Roy, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

13.	Consequences of ‘Color’ in Family, Place, and Child Mortality in São Paulo, Brazil  •  Kuniko Chijiwa, University of Florida

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Mapping Chronic Disease at the County Level and Locating At-Risk Populations  •  Ronald E. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Jeralynn S. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Wesley James, Mississippi State University; Troy Blanchard, Mississippi State University; Richard Thomas, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Louis Pol, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Arthur Cosby, Mississippi State University

15.	Deteriorating Mexican-American Child Health? The Role of Health Insurance  •  Xiuhong You, University of Texas at Austin; Erin R. Hamilton, University of Texas at Austin

16.	Temperature and Neonatal Mortality in Northern Italy during XIXth Century: An Event History Analysis with Daily Data  •  Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, University of Padua; Alessandro Rosina, Università Cattolica, Milan

17.	Does the FACCT Special Health Care Needs Screener Produce Biased Estimates of Children with Chronic Conditions?  •  Julia A. Drew, Brown University

18.	Hispanic Women's Language Proficiency and Utilization of Cancer Screening Services  •  Leticia E. Fernandez, University of Texas at El Paso and University of Texas at Austin; Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin at Madison

19.	Did Infant Health Improve in US Cities the 1990s?  •  Danielle H. Ferry, National Bureau of Economic Research; Sanders Korenman, City University of New York at Baruch

20.	The Impact of HIV Morbidity and AIDS-Related Mortality on Intra-Household Time Allocation in Rural Malawi  •  Peter C. Fleming, University of Pennsylvania; Ari Van Assche, HEC Montréal; Catherine Van de Ruit, University of Pennsylvania

21.	Impact of Macro-Level Economic Improvement on Child Health: Childhood Malnutrition in Ghana, 1988-2003  •  Jemima A. Frimpong, University of Pennsylvania; Roland Pongou, Brown University

22.	Historical Demography of the Exceptional Longevity in the United States  •  Natalia S. Gavrilova, University of Chicago; Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago

23.	Neuroendocrine Biomarkers, Social Relations, and the Costs of Cumulative Stress in Taiwan  •  Omer Gersten, University of California, Berkeley

24.	Disentangling Selection and Causality in Assessing the Effects of Health Inputs on Child Survival: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys in 14 African Countries  •  Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Stockholm University

25.	The Health Status of the Elderly and Their Labor Force Participation in Selected States of India: A Multivariate Analysis  •  Soumitra Ghosh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

26.	Gender Difference in Improvement of Health Status among the Chinese Elderly  •  Danan Gu, Duke University; Yi Zeng, Duke University

27.	Child Care Centers and the Infant/Toddler Feeding Environment  •  Jean Hamilton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Heather Wasser, Durham County Health Department, North Carolina; Margaret Bentley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

28.	Life Course Determinants of Cognitive Performance among Older Women and Men in Ismailia, Egypt  •  Kathryn M. Yount, Emory University; Zeinab Khadr, American University in Cairo

29.	Hispanic Hospitalization and Mortality: Evidence from New Jersey  •  Katherine Hempstead, Rutgers University

30.	Joint Retirement Expectations of Dual-Worker Couples  •  Jeong Hwa Ho, University of Wisconsin at Madison; James Raymo, University of Wisconsin at Madison

31.	Association between Perceived High Risk Behavior and the Use of Condom as a Protective Measure for HIV/AIDS Prevention among Ugandan Women and Men  •  Mian B. Hossain, Morgan State University

32.	A Life Course Perspective on Early Life Conditions and Mortality in Very Late Life Stage  •  Cheng Huang, University of Pennsylvania

33.	Autoimmune Diseases and Cancer Co-morbidity in the U.S. Elderly, 1979 to 2001  •  Hai Huang, Duke University; Kenneth G. Manton, Duke University; Gene R Lowrimore, Duke University; Linyan Hu, Duke University; Kenneth C. Land, Duke University

34.	Chinese Oldest Old with Dementia: Study on the Causes of Dementia from a Sociodemographic Point of View  •  Ying Ji, Peking University; Lei Zhang, Peking University

35.	Depression and Learned Helplessness among Refugee Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Prevalence and Context  •  Johannes John-Langba, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

36.	Social Security and Living Arrangements of the Elderly in the Developing Countries  •  Yumiko Kamiya, University of California, Berkeley

37.	Unusual Social Experiences during Sojourn in the Third Countries and the Health of North Korean Defectors  •  Dongsik Kim, Seoul National University; Youngtae Cho, Seoul National University; Okryun Moon, Seoul National University

38.	The Long-Term Health Consequences of Growing Up with Smokers and Problem Drinkers  •  Daphne Kuo, University of Wisconsin at Madison

39.	Mortality Decomposition of South Korea and Japan: Sex Differentials in Causes of Death  •  Ju-Hong Lee, University of Wisconsin at Madison

40.	Effects of Local Air Quality Reported Using the Air Quality Index and Spatial Clustering Effects on Lung Cancer Mortality Rates of North Carolina Counties in the Year 2000  •  Kuo-Ping Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chirayath Suchindran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

41.	The 1958-61 Famine Effects on Middle-Aged Adult Mortality in China: Debilitation versus Selection  •  Yong Li, Johns Hopkins University

42.	Historical Trends in Health Differentials by Marital Status in the United States: 1982-2002  •  Hui Liu, University of Texas at Austin

44.	How Tempo Distortions Affect the Analysis of Changing Mortality: The Case of Mortality Trends in West and East Germany  •  Marc Luy, University of Rostock

45.	The Effects of Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Immigration on Inflammatory Levels in the United States: An Analysis Using Quantile Regressions  •  Neil Mehta, University of Pennsylvania

46.	Career Outcome and Longevity in Several Cohorts of US Navy and US Army Officers: Directions of Causality  •  Ulrich Mueller, University of Marburg; Tobias Biegel, University of Marburg; Kerstin Walter, University of Marburg; Roberto Lorbeer, University of Marburg

47.	Health Service Use among Women: Differences by Nativity and Ethnicity  •  Hillary J Patuwo, Rice University

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Household Food Security and HIV/AIDS in a Rural District of Malawi during a Famine  •  Valerie A. Paz Soldan, Tulane University; Aimee Benson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Janine Barden-Ofallon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joseph deGraft-Johnson, Save the Children; Thomas Bisika, University of Malawi

49.	Aging and the Sense of Control  •  Leah Rohlfsen, Arizona State University

50.	Measures of Overweight and Obesity for Elderly Taiwanese Men and Women: Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors  •  Zhihong Sa, University of Maryland

51.	The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Voting Participation and Political Affiliation in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries  •  Audrey Sacks, University of Washington

52.	The Impact of Maternal Characteristics on Immunization Status of U.S. Children  •  Sam S Kim, Arizona State University; Jemima A. Frimpong, University of Pennsylvania; Patrick A Rivers, Southern Illinois University; Jennie J Kronenfeld, Arizona State University

53.	Socioeconomic Status, Health, and Mortality among Older Adults in Mexico  •  Kimberly V Smith, Princeton University

54.	Viability of Capillary Blood Collection for Use in Population-Based Health Research  •  James J Snodgrass, University of Oregon

55.	"Missing" Persons in East Timor during the Indonesian Occupation, 1975 - 1999  •  Sarah E. Staveteig, University of California, Berkeley

56.	How Does Voluntary and Involuntary Retirement Affect Psychological Well-Being and Health Status Later in Life?  •  Sarah E. Tom, University of California, Berkeley; Bernardo L. Queiroz, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

57.	Yeah, But Do You Have Insurance? – A Binational Comparison of Healthcare Access for Older Mexicans; United States versus Mexico  •  Jennifer J. Tovar, University of Texas at Austin

58.	Education and Subjective Health in the Changing Society of Taiwan  •  Wei-Pang Wang, University of Texas at Austin

59.	Trends in SES Differentials in Child Mortality across the 20th Century  •  John R. Warren, University of Minnesota; Elaine Hernandez, University of Minnesota

60.	HIV-AIDS and Nutritional/Health Status of Children in Kenya: The Case of Orphans in Nyanza Province  •  Samson Wasao, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Laura Kiige, University of Nairobi

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