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Publikováno v:
Biodemography and Social Biology. 65:137-155
Members of birth cohorts who were alive in 1918 and survived the influenza pandemic were likely to have been "primed" for heart disease in later life. We examine the hypothesis that the twentieth-century heart disease epidemic was a cohort effect ref
Publikováno v:
Biodemography and social biology. 54(2)
Autor:
Benjamin S. Bradshaw, D. Smith
Publikováno v:
Population Research and Policy Review. 32:183-198
Little is known about death rates among diabetic populations. The few prior estimates have used two data systems, usually a registry or a survey to identify diabetics and death certificates to identify deaths. In this research, the diabetic populatio
Autor:
Benjamin S. Bradshaw, D. Smith
Publikováno v:
The Open Demography Journal. 1:11-14
Random sample surveys have been used for public health surveillance for about 50 years and have grown in size over that time. Such surveys are sufficiently large to estimate the sizes of relatively small subpopulations, such as pa- tients with chroni
Autor:
David W. Smith, Benjamin S. Bradshaw
Publikováno v:
Population Research and Policy Review. 27:343-351
There was a sharp, persistent drop in annual variation in life expectancy at birth in the United States between 1940 and 1950. To evaluate the possible relationship of this drop to the introduction of antimicrobial agents, we examined standardized de
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 231:1215-1220
Objective—To determine causes for discharge of military working dogs (MWDs) from service. Design—Retrospective case series. Animals—268 MWDs. Procedures—Records of all MWDs approved for discharge from December 2000 through November 2004 were
This book combines the disciplines of applied demography and public health by describing how applied demographic techniques can be used to help address public health issues. Besides addressing the impact of aging on health and health-related expendit
Autor:
David P. Smith, Benjamin S. Bradshaw
Publikováno v:
Biodemography and Social Biology. 50:127-147
This study uses 61 years of death certificates for Bexar County, Texas, uniformly coded under ICD 9, to describe the transition in heart disease mortality from 1935-1995. We find that life expectancy for persons dying with heart diseases increased th
Autor:
Benjamin S. Bradshaw, David P. Smith
Publikováno v:
Biodemography and Social Biology. 44:25-41
Through a series of life table analyses, this paper describes the natural history of tuberculosis mortality in a Mexican-origin community over five decades (1935-84) during which the disease underwent a transition from a major underlying cause of dea
Publikováno v:
Population Research and Policy Review. 16:225-242
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Mexican origin population of San Antonio, Texas, USA, was desperately impoverished and inhabited some of the worst slums in the USA. Mortality of Mexican origin infants in the 1930s and 1940s was dominated by diarrhea, a c