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Son Preference, Gender Discrimination, and Missing Girls in Rural Spain, 1750–1950

Population and Development Review, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 665-689, September 2021., 2021
Abstract Relying on longitudinal microdata from a Spanish rural region between 1750 and 1950 (almost 35,000 life courses), this article provides evidence that discriminatory practices affected sex‐specific mortality during infancy and childhood. Although it is likely that families also discriminated against girls during the first year of life, female ...
Francisco J. Marco‐Gracia, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia   +1 more
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Patients receiving a high burden of antibiotics in the community in Spain: a cross‐sectional study

Pharmacology Research &Perspectives, Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2021., 2021
Patients receiving a high burden of antibiotics in the community in Spain. Abstract Some patients in the community receive a high burden of antibiotics. We aimed at describing the characteristics of these patients, antibiotics used, and conditions for which they received antibiotics. We carried out a cross‐sectional study.
Rocío Fernández‐Urrusuno, Carmen Marina Meseguer Barros, Sonia Anaya‐Ordóñez, Yolanda Borrego Izquierdo, María Jesús Lallana‐Álvarez, Rosa Madridejos, Esther Marco Tejón, Raquel Prieto Sánchez, Olatz Pérez Rodríguez, María García Gil, Belén Escudero Vilaplana, Genma M. Silva Riádigos, M. Sagrario Pardo López‐Fando, Vicente Olmo Quintana, M. Belén Pina Gadea, Angel García Alvarez, M. Llüisa Sastre Martorell, Jorge I. Jiménez Arce, Rafael Aguilella Vizcaíno, Joaquín Pérez Martín, Natalia Alzueta Isturiz, on behalf of the Infectious Diseases SEFAP team   +21 more
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Epidemiological Trends of Head and Neck Cancer: A Population‐Based Study

BioMed Research International, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Background. Over the past decades, lots of advance have occurred in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of head and neck cancer (HNC). However, the contemporaneous incidence and survival trends, on the basis of population‐based registry, have not been reported. Methods.
Kangwen Guo, Weiliang Xiao, Xinggui Chen, Zhenying Zhao, Yuanxiong Lin, Ge Chen, Xianbin Cai   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consulate underregistration: Magnitudes and effects on Spanish emigration statistics [PDF]

, 2014
El subregistro consular representa uno de los principales problemas para la adecuada observación y medición estadística de la emigración española actual.
Hidalgo-Capitán, Antonio Luis, Romero-Valiente, Juan Manuel   +1 more
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Underregistration of neonatal deaths: an empirical study of the accuracy of infantile vital statistics in Taiwan. [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1998
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The accuracy of the official statistic on infant deaths in Taiwan has been questioned. This study aimed to survey infant deaths nationwide, to measure associated vital statistics, and compare them with the official statistics to assess accuracy.
Chen, LM, Sun, CA, Wu, DM, Shen, MH, Lee, WC   +4 more
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Análise dos registros de leishmaniose visceral pelo método de captura-recaptura Analysis of visceral leishmaniasis reports by the capture-recapture method

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2007
OBJETIVO: Analisar o número de casos, óbitos, incidência e letalidade e estimar a subnotificação da leishmaniose visceral, bem como a cobertura dos sistemas nacionais de informações.
Ana Nilce Silveira Maia-Elkhoury, Eduardo Hage Carmo, Marcia Leite Sousa-Gomes, Eduardo Mota   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality? [PDF]

, 2001
More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female mortality in parts of the developing world, most notably South Asia, China, West Asia, and parts of North Africa (Sen, 1989; Sen 1990 ...
Klasen, Stephan, Wink, Claudia
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Determinants of under-registration of marriage among women in India: An exploratory study in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2022
Background: Registration of vital events has been low coverage in India since long, especially registration of marriages. Studies and data on marriage registration are very limited in India.
Nutan Kumari, Rajan Ram, Chander Shekhar
doaj   +1 more source

Urban foraging : individual variation in inner-city graffiti writers' target preferences and specialization [PDF]

, 2020
Objectives: Drawing upon optimal foraging theory, we examine graffiti writers’ individual target preferences to establish the diversity in their target choices (henceforth called “target specialization”).
Lens, Luc, Neirynck, Elias, Vander Beken, Tom, Vandeviver, Christophe   +3 more
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Armed Conflict and the Timing of Childbearing in Azerbaijan

Population and Development Review, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 501-556, September 2020., 2020
Abstract Research on fertility changes in former Soviet states of the South Caucasus is scant and has overlooked the role of armed conflicts. This study contributes to filling these gaps by providing the first detailed account of fertility changes in Azerbaijan since independence and by exploring them in relation to the Nagorno‐Karabakh conflict with ...
Orsola Torrisi
wiley   +1 more source