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Chronic job insecurity among automobile workers: Effects on job satisfaction and health
(Elsevier, 1994-05)
Work conditions characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity are potential stressors for employees. One such stressor is job insecurity. This longitudinal study of 207 automobile manufacturing workers indicates that chronic ...
Measurement Error in Prenatal Care Utilization: Evidence of Attenuation Bias in the Estimation of Impact on Birth Weight
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Objective: Errors in the measurement of the timing and number of prenatal care visits may produce downward bias in estimates of the impact of prenatal care use on birth outcomes. This paper examines the extent of attenuation ...
Modeling and analyzing HIV transmission: the effect of contact patterns
(Elsevier, 1988-12)
A compartmental model is presented for the spread of HIV in a homosexual population divided into subgroups by degree of sexual activity. The model includes constant recruitment rates for the susceptibles in the subgroups. ...
Factors facilitating adjustment to unemployment: Implications for intervention
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-08)
Correlates of Surgical Treatment Type for Women with Noninvasive and Invasive Breast Cancer
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2001-09-01)
There is concern that breast-conserving surgery is underused in some breast cancer patient subpopulations, including women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), an early-stage form of the disease. We conducted a population-based ...
Family Structure and Children's Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2001-08)
The spread and persistence of infectious diseases in structured populations
(Elsevier, 1988)
A basic assumption of many epidemic models is that populations are composed of a homogeneous group of randomly mixing individuals. This is not a realistic assumption. Most actual populations are divided into a number of ...
Crowd-Out in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Incidence, Enrollee Characteristics and Experiences, and Potential Impact on New York's SCHIP
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-02)
The extent to which the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) crowds our private insurance is poorly understood. Objective . To assess the incidence of crowd-out and enrollee characteristics associated with ...
The stochastic SI model with recruitment and deaths I. comparison with the closed SIS model
(Elsevier, 1993)
We compare the stochastic and deterministic version of an SI model with recuitment, background deaths, and deaths due to the disease. For the stochastic version, analysis of the mean number of susceptibles, m, and infecteds, ...
An evolutionary ecological perspective on demographic transitions: Modeling multiple currencies
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002-03)
Life history theory postulates tradeoffs of current versus future reproduction; today women face evolutionarily novel versions of these tradeoffs. Optimal age at first birth is the result of tradeoffs in fertility and ...