Within-country migration and obesity dynamics:Analysis of 94,783 women from the Peruvian demographic and health surveys 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1117 Public Health and Health Services 16 Studies in Human Society 1603 Demography

Autor: Najera, Hector, Nandy, Shailen, Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M., Miranda, J. Jaime

Publikováno v: Najera, H, Nandy, S, Carrillo-Larco, R M & Miranda, J J 2019, ' Within-country migration and obesity dynamics : Analysis of 94,783 women from the Peruvian demographic and health surveys 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1117 Public Health and Health Services 16 Studies in Human Society 1603 Demography ', BMC Public Health, vol. 19, no. 1, 263 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6586-7

Background: Rural-to-urban migration is associated with increased obesity, yet it remains unknown whether this association exist, and to what extent, with other types of internal migration. Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of the Peruvian D

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A Dynamic Choice Model to Estimate the User Cost of Crowding with Large-Scale Transit Data

Autor: Prateek Bansal, Daniel Hörcher, Daniel J. Graham

Publikováno v: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 185:615-639

Efficient mass transit provision should be responsive to the behaviour of passengers. Operators often conduct surveys to elicit passenger perspectives, but these can be expensive to administer and can suffer from hypothetical biases. With the advent

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https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12804

Trustworthiness of Statistical Inference

Autor: David J. Hand

Publikováno v: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 185:329-347

We examine the role of trustworthiness and trust in statistical inference, arguing that it is the extent of trustworthiness in inferential statistical tools which enables trust in the conclusions. Certain tools, such as the p-value and significance t

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Comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and safer sex negotiation among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa

Autor: Frimpong, JB, Budu, E, Adu, C, Mohammed, A, Tetteh, JK, Seidu, A-A, Ahinkorah, BO

Globally, HIV/AIDS remains a public health issue, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite the increased advocacy and dissemination of comprehensive HIV/AIDS information in SSA, it appears that little progress has been made to reduce the incid

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Empirical linkages between female genital mutilation and multiple sexual partnership: evidence from the 2018 Mali and 2013 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Surveys

Autor: Ebenezer Kwesi Armah-Ansah, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, John Elvis Hagan, Sanni Yaya, Collins Adu, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Eugene Budu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Publikováno v: Journal of Biosocial Science. 54:355-370

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is very pervasive in Africa, with significant regional variations in the prevalence of this traditional practice. This study examined the linkages between FGM and multiple sexual partnership in Mali and Sierra Leone �

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