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Profile of arthritis disability: II
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-02-15)
Objective Arthritis is the most common chronic condition and the most common cause of disability among older US adults. We studied social participation, disabilities in many life domains, accommodations used (buffers), ...
Does it pay to move from welfare to work?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002)
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act requires welfare recipients to lookfor work and has made it more difficult for nonworking recipients to remain on the welfare rolls. In addition,the ...
Probabilistic Thinking and Early Social Security Claiming.
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2006-09)
This study analyzes the extent to which an individual’s survival expectations influence his or her decision to claim social security benefits at an early age. We find that subjective survival probabilities capture meaningful ...
Population Ageing and the Well-Being of Older Persons in Thailand: Past Trends, current situation and future challenges
(UNFPA Thailand and Asia and the Pacific Regional Office, 2008-12)
What's the Risk? A Simple Approach for Estimating Adjusted Risk Measures from Nonlinear Models Including Logistic Regression
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-02)
To develop and validate a general method (called regression risk analysis) to estimate adjusted risk measures from logistic and other nonlinear multiple regression models. We show how to estimate standard errors for these ...
From Pubs to Scrubs: Alcohol Misuse and Health Care Use
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-10)
To analyze the relationships between alcohol misuse and two types of acute health care use—hospital admissions and emergency room (ER) episodes. Data Sources/Study Setting . The first (2001/2002) and second (2004/2005) ...
Fast times and easy questions: the effects of age, experience and question complexity on web survey response times
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-01)
This paper examines response times (RT) to survey questions. Cognitive psychologists have long relied on response times to study cognitive processes but response time data have only recently received attention from survey ...
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali, by Kris Holloway .
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-02)
Developing multicomponent interventions using fractional factorial designs
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-09-20)
Multicomponent interventions composed of behavioral, delivery, or implementation factors in addition to medications are becoming increasingly common in health sciences. A natural experimental approach to developing and ...