HIV/AIDS and Young Age Widowhood in Sub-Saharan Africa • Jacob Adetunji, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Unmet Health Needs for Sick Children in Mothers' Views in Rural Bangladesh • Nurul Alam, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research

Diabetes Burden among Latinos • Flavia Andrade, University of Wisconsin at Madison

The Relative Effects of Health Program Inputs and Household Socioeconomic Status on Use of Services in a Context of Targeted Program Placement: The Case of Nicaragua • Gustavo Angeles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Margel Beteta, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos - Nicaragua ; Luis Blandon, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos - Nicaragua

Relationship between Cancer and Aging: Experimental Evidence and Mathematical Modeling Considerations • Konstantin G. Arbeev, Duke University ; Anna V. Semenchenko, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Vladimir N. Anisimov, N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology ; Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Lyubov S. Arbeeva, Ulyanovsk State University

Neighbors, Fertility and Endogenous Preferences • Solveig Argeseanu, University of Pennsylvania ; Christopher R. Cunningham, Syracuse University

Age and Time Patterns of Mortality by Cause in Italy: A Mortality Surface Approach • Elisabetta Barbi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Graziella Caselli, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" ; Anatoli Yashin, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Female Autonomy and Women's Nutritional Status in Egypt: Does Household Structure Matter? • Adina K. Batnitzky, Brown University

The Chronic Burden of Diabetes: Exploring the Racial Gap in Functional Status among Older Americans • Latrica E. Best, Pennsylvania State University

Provincial Estimates and Projections of HIV/AIDS in China • Simona Bignami, University of Pennsylvania

Influence of Non-Biological Factors on Early Neonatal Mortality: Evidences from Some Selected States of India • Aparajita Chattopadhyay, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Ranjana Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Rajib Acharya, ORC Macro and Johns Hopkins University ; Subrata Lahiri, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Factors Influencing Reproductive Choices of HIV Infected Married Women: A Prospective Cohort Study in Mumbai, India • Emily Das, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Naval G Daver, Grant Medical College

Multivariate Cohort-Based Analysis of Individual Risk of Mortality in Malawi: The Effects of Children Ever Born and School Attainment • Henry V. Doctor, Navrongo Health Research Centre

Maternal Health Behaviors and the Childhood Health Gradient • Jennifer Dowd, Princeton University

Decomposing the Effects of Marital Trajectories on Health: A Discrete-Time Analysis of Transitions, Duration, Sequencing, and Timing across the Life Course • Matthew E. Dupre, Duke University ; Sarah O. Meadows, Duke University

Differential Adult Mortality by Underlying and Associated Causes of Death • Isaac W. Eberstein, Florida State University ; Bryan M. Giblin, Florida State University ; Charles Nam, Florida State University ; Amy Walsh, Florida State University ; Kyle Reese-Cassal, Florida State University

Maternal Smoking, Prenatal Care, and Breastfeeding Initiation • Sylvia Ann Ellison, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC ; Anjani Chandra, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

Young Women and Violence in Russia: A Study of Homicide Victimization Rates • Natalia S. Gavrilova, University of Chicago ; Victoria G. Semyonova, Ministry of Health, Russia ; Galina N. Evdokushkina, Ministry of Health, Russia ; Alla E. Ivanova, Ministry of Health, Russia ; Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago

A Happy Union between Biomarkers and the Social World? Examining the Validity of Proximate Allostatic Load • Omer Gersten, University of California, Berkeley

Child Immunization in Rural West Bengal (India): A Multilevel Analysis • Atanu Ghosh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Laishram Ladusingh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Infant Mortality in Peru and Mexico: Effects of Migration • Shirin Hakimzadeh, Rice University

The Social Determinants of Sleep: An Analysis Using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study • Lauren Hale, RAND

Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Health, and Well-Being in a Less Developed Setting • Nathan R. Jones, University of California, Los Angeles

Spatial Determinants of Childhood Morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Child Survival • Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, University of Southampton

Visualizing the Accessibility and Spatial Equity of HIV-Related Services: A Geographic Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods • Catherine E. Kaukinen, Bowling Green State University ; Christopher L. Fulcher, University of Missouri at Columbia

Civic Engagement and Morbidity: Evidence from Poor Refugee Communities in Jordan • Marwan Khawaja, American University of Beirut ; Mylene Salem-Tewtel, American University of Beirut ; Maya I. Obeid, American University of Beirut ; Matilda Saliba, American University of Beirut

Mortality Dynamics of the U.S. Population by Race and Hispanic Origin: 1984-1999 • Ward Kingkade, U.S. Census Bureau

Rural-Urban Differences in Infant/Child Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa • Maxwell N. Kwenda, Bowling Green State University

Race and Ethnic Disparities in Depression among Mothers in Los Angeles: Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Effects • Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo, RAND

Decomposing Regional and Sex Mortality Differential in China 1999: The Causes of Death Perspective • Yong Li, Johns Hopkins University

Family Health and Migration Decisions in the Early Years of Welfare Reform: Do Poverty and Social Support Change the Equation? • Dee C. May, Pennsylvania State University ; Gordon F. De Jong, Pennsylvania State University

Recent Infant Mortality Trends in Central America • Stephen D. McCracken, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ; Paul Stupp, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Modeling the Course of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in China: An Application of a Bio-Behavioral Macrosimulation Model of the Spread of HIV/AIDS • Giovanna Merli, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Sara Hertog, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Neighborhood-Level Effects on Preterm and Very Preterm Birth among a Multi-Year Birth Cohort in Wake County, NC • Lynne Messer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jay S. Kaufman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Barbara A. Laraia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Migration and Risk of Health: Are Migrant Workers More Vulnerable to STI/HIV in India? • Sudipta Mondal, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Shiva S. Halli, University of Manitoba

Religious Attendance, Age, and U.S. Adult Mortality • Benjamin Moulton, University of Texas at Austin ; Robert A. Hummer, University of Texas at Austin ; Richard G. Rogers, University of Colorado at Boulder

Population, Urban Environment and Health in India • Dewaram A. Nagdeve, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Overweight and Depression during Adolescence • Belinda L. Needham, University of Texas at Austin ; Robert Crosnoe, University of Texas at Austin

Healthy Immigrant Effect in Canada: A Longitudinal Perspective Using National Population Health Surveys • Edward Ng, Statistics Canada ; Russell Wilkins, Statistics Canada ; Jean-Marie Berthelot, Statistics Canada

Health Status, Urbanization, and Migration in Vietnam: Preliminary Findings from the 1997-98 Living Standard Survey • Liem T. Nguyen, Brown University

Alcohol Consumption Is Associated with Increased All-Cause Mortality in Russian Men and Women: A Study Based on the Mortality of Relatives • Amanda Nicholson, University College London ; Martin Bobak, University College London ; Michael Murphy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ; Michael Marmot, University College London

Changes in Household Composition and Orphan Living Situations in Selected African Countries Affected by HIV/AIDS • Florence Nyangara, Futures Group International

Reasons of Emergence of Malaria in KBK Region of Orissa, India: An Anthropological Approach • Mahendra Panda, Indian Council of Medical Research

Study of Risk Factors of Maternal Mortality in the Slum Populations of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India • Arvind Pandey, Indian Council of Medical Research ; B.N. Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Institute

Sexual Distress in Urban China: A Population-Based National Survey of Men and Women • William L. Parish, University of Chicago ; Elena Obkuhova, University of Chicago ; Suiming Pan, Renmin University of China ; Fang Li, University of Chicago

Household, Community, and Contextual Effects on Childhood Malnutrition in Rural India: A Multilevel Approach • S. Rajaram, J.S.S. Institute of Economic Research ; Thankam Sunil, University of Texas at San Antonio

Dual-Earner Couples: The Impact of Relative Income on the Prevalence of Heart Disease • Erin B. Reidy, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

Does Women's Perception of Domestic Violence Have a Bearing on Reproductive Health and Health Seeking Practice in India? -- An Exploration Based on NFHS-2 Data • Nandini Roy, UNIFEM ; Damodar Sahu, Institute for Research in Medical Statistics (ICMR)

The Mortality Effects of Nepal's Vitamin A Distribution Program • Shea Rutstein, ORC Macro ; Pav Govindasamy, ORC Macro

Projecting the Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS: Alternative Scenarios • Cheryl C. Sawyer, United Nations

Breastfeeding and Maternal HIV-1 Disease Progression and Mortality • Gilda Sedgh, Harvard University ; Donna Spiegelman, Harvard University ; Gernard Msamanga, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences ; Wafaie W. Fawzi, Harvard University

Comparative Health Risk Assessment for Environmental Pollution in North Chennai, India • Ravi P. Shankar, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute ; Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute ; Sankar Sambandam, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute ; Padmavathi Ramaswami, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute

Domestic Violence in India and Repercussion on Women's Health • Ajay Kumar Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Rabindra Kumar Sinha, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Social Networks, Membership, and Participation on Health Outcomes • Lai S. Tso, University of Michigan

Measuring the Expectation for Life and the Spread of Violence in Latin America • Piedad Urdinola, University of California, Berkeley ; Bernardo L. Queiroz, University of California, Berkeley

A Multi-Dimensional Assessment of the Health of Working Age Vietnamese • Mark VanLandingham, Tulane University

Aggregate Level Analysis of the Effect of Socioeconomic Factors on Neonatal, Postneonatal, and Infant Mortality in Peru, 2000 • Tania R. Vasquez, University of Texas at Austin

Physical Activity Patterns among Native Americans • Shu-Chuan Wang, Chung Shan Medical University ; Ginger L. Gossman, University of Texas at Austin

The Mediating Role of Cumulative Job Characteristics in SES-Health Relationships • John R. Warren, University of Minnesota ; Jennie E. Brand, University of Wisconsin at Madison

HIV/AIDS in Zambia: New Trends in Prevalence • Antonia M. Welch, Harvard University

Accidents and Injuries among Shift Workers: A Neglected Dimension of Labor Force Inequality • Lijuan Wu, University of Maryland

Social Capital and Self-Rated Health Status: Urban China in the 1990s • Qing Xiao, Utah State University