Family Characteristics

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "His" and "Hers": Meeting the Economic Bar to Marriage. 
  • "Just three more bites": an observational analysis of parents' socialization of children's eating at mealtime. 
  • A Novel Adaptation of the HOME Inventory for Elders: The Importance of the Home Environment Across the Life Course. 
  • A multi-dimensional model for projecting family households--with an illustrative numerical application. 
  • A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership. 
  • A randomized pilot trial of a telephone-based couples intervention for physical intimacy and sexual concerns in colorectal cancer. 
  • Accelerometer-measured physical activity among older adults in urban India: Results of a study on global AGEing and adult health substudy. 
  • Access to environmental health assets across wealth strata: Evidence from 41 low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Acculturation-related variables, sexual initiation, and subsequent sexual behavior among Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Cuban youth. 
  • Adverse childhood experiences, psychosocial well-being and cognitive development among orphans and abandoned children in five low income countries. 
  • Alcohol dependence and use of treatment services among women in the community. 
  • Anticipated Negative Police-Youth Encounters and Depressive Symptoms among Pregnant African American Women: A Brief Report. 
  • Association between socioeconomic status and risk of hospitalization due to child maltreatment in the USA. 
  • Association of military life experiences and health indicators among military spouses. 
  • Birth planning propaganda, incentives and peer pressure. 
  • Black-white and urban-rural differences in stability of household composition among elderly persons. 
  • Budgetary Consequences of High Medical Spending Across Age and Social Status: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys. 
  • Caring for mom and neglecting yourself? The health effects of caring for an elderly parent. 
  • Changes in health and health care utilization following eviction from public housing. 
  • Changing access to health services in urban China: implications for equity. 
  • Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. 
  • Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil. 
  • Children and the Elderly: Wealth Inequality Among America's Dependents. 
  • Children who prosper in unfavorable environments: the relationship to social capital. 
  • Competing risk of household expansion or institutionalization in late life. 
  • Consumer preferences for household water treatment products in Andhra Pradesh, India. 
  • Contributory behaviors and life satisfaction among Chinese older adults: Exploring variations by gender and living arrangements. 
  • Correlates of inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescents. 
  • Correlates of poor health among orphans and abandoned children in less wealthy countries: the importance of caregiver health. 
  • Couples' reports of support for smoking cessation predicting women's late pregnancy cessation. 
  • Cultural and community determinants of subjective social status among Cherokee and White youth. 
  • Design of the Genetics of Early Onset Cardiovascular Disease (GENECARD) study. 
  • Direct and indirect costs for hospitalized patients with dengue in Southern Sri Lanka. 
  • Disability and home hazards and safety practices in US households. 
  • Disparities in preschool immunization coverage associated with maternal age 
  • Do juveniles help or hinder? Influence of juvenile offspring on maternal behavior and reproductive outcomes in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). 
  • Does Mother Know Best? Treatment Adherence as a Function of Anticipated Treatment Benefit. 
  • Early Childhood Family Structure and Mother-Child Interactions: Variation by Race and Ethnicity 
  • Early Life Child Micronutrient Status, Maternal Reasoning, and a Nurturing Household Environment have Persistent Influences on Child Cognitive Development at Age 5 years: Results from MAL-ED. 
  • Early student (dis)engagement: Contributions of household chaos, parenting, and self-regulatory skills. 
  • Economic Burden of Dengue Virus Infection at the Household Level Among Residents of Puerto Maldonado, Peru. 
  • Effects of a couple-based intervention to reduce risks for HIV, HCV, and STIs among drug-involved heterosexual couples in Kazakhstan: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of changing demographic factors upon women's family status in China: a model of a family status life table and its application. 
  • Effects of infertility, pregnancy loss, and patient concerns on family size of women with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Emotional arousal predicts observed social support in German and American couples talking about breast cancer. 
  • Employer health insurance offerings and employee enrollment decisions. 
  • Energy expenditure and activity among Hadza hunter-gatherers. 
  • Environmental Factors for Hearing Loss and Middle Ear Disease in Alaska Native Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from a Cluster Randomized Trial. 
  • Environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer risk in nonsmoking women. 
  • Epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum Infections in a Semi-Arid Rural African Setting: Evidence from Reactive Case Detection in Northwestern Kenya. 
  • Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world. 
  • Experience and confidence in health technologies: evidence from malaria testing and treatment in Western Kenya. 
  • Explaining continued high HIV prevalence in South Africa: socioeconomic factors, HIV incidence and sexual behaviour change among a rural cohort, 2001-2004. 
  • Factors that determine catastrophic expenditure for tuberculosis care: a patient survey in China. 
  • Family meal patterns: associations with sociodemographic characteristics and improved dietary intake among adolescents. 
  • Family planning intentions: a qualitative exploration of postpartum women of Mexican descent in North Carolina. 
  • Family risk as a predictor of initial engagement and follow-through in a universal nurse home visiting program to prevent child maltreatment. 
  • Feedbacks from human health to household reliance on natural resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Fertility and patterns of labor force participation among married women. 
  • Field testing of a household-scale onsite blackwater treatment system in South Africa. 
  • Financial burden of healthcare for cancer patients with social medical insurance: a multi-centered study in urban China. 
  • Fine mapping of the chromosome 12 late-onset Alzheimer disease locus: potential genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity. 
  • Genomewide association study for determinants of HIV-1 acquisition and viral set point in HIV-1 serodiscordant couples with quantified virus exposure. 
  • Guess who's cooking? The role of men in meal planning, shopping, and preparation in US families. 
  • Has the Chinese family planning policy been successful in changing fertility preferences? 
  • Health Consequences of Family Member Incarceration for Adults in the Household. 
  • Heterogeneity in health seeking behaviour for treatment, prevention and urgent care in four districts in western Kenya. 
  • High food insecurity and its correlates among families living on a rural American Indian Reservation. 
  • High throughput, cell type-specific analysis of key proteins in human endometrial biopsies of women from fertile and infertile couples. 
  • High-deductible health plans: are vulnerable families enrolled? 
  • Household Air Pollution Is Associated with Altered Cardiac Function among Women in Kenya. 
  • Household and living arrangement projections at the subnational level: an extended cohort-component approach. 
  • Household beliefs about malaria testing and treatment in Western Kenya: the role of health worker adherence to malaria test results. 
  • Household gun ownership. 
  • Household perceptions and subjective valuations of indoor residual spraying programmes to control malaria in northern Uganda. 
  • Household responsibilities, income, and ambulatory blood pressure among working men and women. 
  • How to help families cope with caring for elderly members. 
  • Human Gut Microbiota Predicts Susceptibility to Vibrio cholerae Infection. 
  • Impact of out-of-pocket expenses for surgical care on households in rural Haiti: a mixed-methods study. 
  • Impact of physician assistant care on office visit resource use in the United States. 
  • Impact of targeted beverage taxes on higher- and lower-income households. 
  • Impacts of forests on children's diet in rural areas across 27 developing countries. 
  • Implications of changes in households and living arrangements for future home-based care needs and costs for disabled elders in China. 
  • Improving recovery following cardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • In-Home Passive Sensor Data Collection and Its Implications for Social Media Research: Perspectives of Community Women in Rural South Africa. 
  • Incidence of invasive salmonella disease in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicentre population-based surveillance study. 
  • Individual and Spatial Risk of Dengue Virus Infection in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. 
  • Influenza vaccination of household contacts of newborns: a hospital-based strategy to increase vaccination rates. 
  • Intergenerational continuity and stability in early family formation. 
  • Is birth order associated with adult mortality? 
  • Labor-force participation of older married women. 
  • Lessons Learned From an Online Study with Dual-smoker Couples. 
  • Living alone and cardiovascular risk in outpatients at risk of or with atherothrombosis. 
  • Living arrangement and coronary heart disease: the JPHC study. 
  • Living arrangements and health status in later life: a review of recent literature. 
  • Living arrangements, social networks and depressive symptoms among older men and women in Singapore. 
  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families. 
  • Magic moment? Maternal marriage for children born out of wedlock. 
  • Memory B cell responses to Vibrio cholerae O1 lipopolysaccharide are associated with protection against infection from household contacts of patients with cholera in Bangladesh. 
  • Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated 
  • Migration and household/family structure: Puerto Ricans in the United States. 
  • Molecular malaria epidemiology: mapping and burden estimates for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007. 
  • Morbidity and mortality disparities among colonist and indigenous populations in the Ecuadorian Amazon. 
  • Multiple myeloma and family history of cancer. A case-control study. 
  • Multisector intervention to accelerate reductions in child stunting: an observational study from 9 sub-Saharan African countries. 
  • National-level differences in the adoption of environmental health technologies: a cross-border comparison from Benin and Togo. 
  • Neighborhood and Family Environment of Expectant Mothers May Influence Prenatal Programming of Adult Cancer Risk: Discussion and an Illustrative DNA Methylation Example. 
  • Neuropsychology of the prodrome to psychosis in the NAPLS consortium: relationship to family history and conversion to psychosis. 
  • Number of children associated with obesity in middle-aged women and men: results from the health and retirement study. 
  • Parent-Child Relationships and Aging Parents' Sleep Quality: A Comparison of One-Child and Multiple-Children Families in China. 
  • Parent-adolescent influences on everyday dietary practices: Perceptions of adolescent females with obesity and their mothers. 
  • Parental agreement of reporting parent to child aggression using the Conflict Tactics Scales 
  • Parents' perceptions of quality health care. 
  • Partners empowered: a couple-based intervention for newly diagnosed cancer. 
  • PeRLs: changing the way we view lectures. 
  • Perceptions of neighborhood safety and asthma among children and adolescents in Los Angeles: a multilevel analysis. 
  • Physical activity during pregnancy and postpartum depressive symptoms. 
  • Piloting improved cookstoves in India. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum, anaemia and cognitive and educational performance among school children in an area of moderate malaria transmission: baseline results of a cluster randomized trial on the coast of Kenya. 
  • Power and the pursuit of a partner's goals. 
  • Predictors of institutionalization among caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Predictors of retirement. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of sexual abuse reported by late adolescent school children in Sri Lanka. 
  • Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and associated factors among adults in Southern Brazil: a population-based cross-sectional study. 
  • Prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and physical trauma in an HIV-positive sample from the deep south. 
  • Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height. 
  • Priorities for family building among patients and partners seeking treatment for infertility. 
  • Prospective study of protein-energy supplementation early in life and of growth in the subsequent generation in Guatemala. 
  • Psychiatric symptoms in bereaved versus nonbereaved youth and young adults: a longitudinal epidemiological study. 
  • Quantitative and qualitative differences in the T cell response to HIV in uninfected Ugandans exposed or unexposed to HIV-infected partners. 
  • Repayment flexibility can reduce financial stress: a randomized control trial with microfinance clients in India. 
  • Repellent plants provide affordable natural screening to prevent mosquito house entry in tropical rural settings--results from a pilot efficacy study. 
  • Reproductive and family planning history, knowledge, and needs: a community survey of low-income women in Beijing, China. 
  • Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas. 
  • Resolving disease management problems in European-American and Latino couples with type 2 diabetes: the effects of ethnicity and patient gender. 
  • Serum perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) and associations with behavioral attributes. 
  • Sex preference and third birth intervals in a traditional Indian society. 
  • Sharing the wealth: the effect of siblings on adults' wealth ownership. 
  • Similarities and differences in contraceptive use reported by women and men in the National Survey of Family Growth. 
  • Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation. 
  • Sociocultural and socioeconomic influences on type 2 diabetes risk in overweight/obese African-American and Latino-American children and adolescents. 
  • Socioeconomic risk factors for invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease. 
  • Spatial autocorrelation in uptake of antenatal care and relationship to individual, household and village-level factors: results from a community-based survey of pregnant women in six districts in western Kenya. 
  • Spatial distribution of bednet coverage under routine distribution through the public health sector in a rural district in Kenya. 
  • Spousal-residence separation among Chinese young couples. 
  • Stepfamily Structure and Transfers Between Generations in U.S. Families. 
  • Stress in employed women: impact of marital status and children at home on neurohormone output and home strain. 
  • Studies of viral antibody responses among Amish families. 
  • Substance use, dependence, and service utilization among the US uninsured nonelderly population. 
  • Suicidal ideation and behavior and noncompliance with the medical regimen among diabetic adolescents. 
  • The Effects of a Couples-Based Health Behavior Intervention During Pregnancy on Latino Couples' Dyadic Satisfaction Postpartum. 
  • The Household Registration System: computer software for the rapid dissemination of demographic surveillance systems. 
  • The association of health and income in the elderly: experience from a southern state of Brazil. 
  • The benefits of action to reduce household air pollution (BAR-HAP) model: A new decision support tool. 
  • The caregiving environments provided to children by depressed mothers with or without an antisocial history. 
  • The demographic transition in southern Africa: another look at the evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe. 
  • The demographic transition in southern Africa: reviewing the evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe. 
  • The ecocultural context and child behavior problems: A qualitative analysis in rural Nepal. 
  • The economic burden of anxiety disorders in the 1990s. 
  • The economic burden of self-reported and undiagnosed cardiovascular diseases and diabetes on Indonesian households. 
  • The effect of NCMS on catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from tuberculosis care in China. 
  • The effect of water quality testing on household behavior: evidence from an experiment in rural India. 
  • The effects of household management practices on the global warming potential of urban lawns. 
  • The effects of mortality on fertility: population dynamics after a natural disaster. 
  • The female-male disparity in obesity prevalence among black American young adults: contributions of sociodemographic characteristics of the childhood family. 
  • The impact of a family skills training intervention among Burmese migrant families in Thailand: A randomized controlled trial. 
  • The impact of methamphetamine ("tik") on a peri-urban community in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • The impact of trauma and disaster on young children. 
  • The relationship between employment and substance use among students aged 12 to 17. 
  • The role of couples' interacting world assumptions and relationship adjustment in women's postdisaster PTSD symptoms. 
  • The trials and tribulations of enrolling couples in a randomized, controlled trial: a self-management program for hyperlipidemia as a model. 
  • Treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Chongqing of China: unaffordable care for the poor. 
  • US Household Food Shopping Patterns: Dynamic Shifts Since 2000 And Socioeconomic Predictors. 
  • Undermet needs for assistance in personal activities of daily living among community-dwelling oldest old in China from 2005 to 2008. 
  • Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children's health across 35 developing countries. 
  • Use of substance abuse treatment services by persons with mental health and substance use problems. 
  • WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND FAMILY PLANNING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. 
  • Water quality risks of 'improved' water sources: evidence from Cambodia. 
  • Where people shop is not associated with the nutrient quality of packaged foods for any racial-ethnic group in the United States. 
  • Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda (SSM-D-14-01580R1). 
  • Young worker safety in construction: do family ties and workgroup size affect hazard exposures and safety practices? 
  • “Processes of cumulative adversity linking childhood disadvantage toincreased risk of heart attack across the life course.” 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Gassman-Pines, Anna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Science & Society
  • Gibson-Davis, Christina M., Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine