Brass Tacks : Essays in Medical Demography - A Tribute to the Memory of Professor William Brass

by Brass, William; Blacker, John G. C.; Zaba, Basia

• ISBN13: 9780485115635
• ISBN10: 0485115638
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

Professor William Brass has been described as one of the most distinguished demographers since the Reverend Thomas Malthus. Brass was an outstanding teacher and a mentor to many demographers who have gone on to become respected academics in their own right, and the papers collected in this volume reflect his influence in four different fields of demographic science.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Editors' Preface	x
Introduction	1	(6)
Griffith Feeney
Section 1: Demographic Estimation	7	(60)
Child mortality estimation by time since first birth	9	(11)
Kenneth Hill
Maria-Elena Figueroa
Adjustment methods for bias in the indirect childhood mortality estimates	20	(23)
Martine Collumbien
Andy Sloggett
Estimation of adult mortality from data on adult siblings	43	(24)
Ian Timaeus
Basia Zaba
Mohamed Ali
Section 2: Bio-Demography	67	(32)
Use of biomarkers in population-based studies of reproductive function and reproductive health	69	(7)
Ronald H. Gray
HIV infection in women and children	76	(23)
Marie-Louise Newell
Section 3: Developing Country Demography	99	(106)
Evidence of changes in family formation patterns in Pakistan?	101	(21)
Fatima Juarez
Zeba A. Sathar
A comparative analysis of fertility in Arab countries: Explaining the anomalies	122	(34)
Hoda Rashad
Fertility trends and population policy in Kenya	156	(30)
S.M. Macrae
E.K. Bauni
J.G.C. Blacker
Populations of the Northern Sahel: demographic problems and solutions	186	(19)
Sara Randall
Section 4: Developed Country Demography	205	(87)
Accessions and abdications: men and women as family markers in linked data for England and Wales	207	(24)
Lynda Clarke
Heather Joshi
A novel method of comparing regional trends in infant mortality applied to Italy 1950-89	231	(13)
John Osborn
Angela Spinelli
Maria Sofia Cattaruzza
Demographic and socio-economic data in general practice in Britain; discussed using data from East London	244	(26)
Kath Moser
Sandra Eldridge
Health, health care and death among older adults in England and Wales: a hundred years' perspective	270	(22)
Emily Grundy
Notes	292	(4)
Index	296