Browsing by Author "Corsi, Daniel"
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Association between coverage of maternal and child health interventions, and under-5 mortality: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of 35 sub-Saharan African countries
Corsi, Daniel J.; Subramanian, S. V. (Co-Action Publishing, 2014)Background: Infant and child mortality rates are among the most important indicators of child health, nutrition, implementation of key survival interventions, and the overall social and economic development of a population. ... -
Association between socioeconomic status and self-reported diabetes in India: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis
Corsi, Daniel J.; Subramanian, S. Venkata (BMJ Group, 2012)Objectives: To quantify the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and type 2 diabetes in India. Design: Nationally representative cross-sectional household survey. Setting: Urban and rural areas across 29 states ... -
Change in the Body Mass Index Distribution for Women: Analysis of Surveys from 37 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Razak, Fahad; Corsi, Daniel J.; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013)Background There are well-documented global increases in mean body mass index (BMI) and prevalence of overweight (BMI≥25.0 kg/m2) and obese (BMI≥30.0 kg/m2). Previous analyses, however, have failed to report whether ... -
Child anthropometry data quality from Demographic and Health Surveys, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, and National Nutrition Surveys in the West Central Africa region: are we comparing apples and oranges?
Corsi, Daniel J.; Perkins, Jessica Mayson; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Informa UK Limited, 2017) -
Environmental Profile of a Community's Health (EPOCH): An Instrument to Measure Environmental Determinants of Cardiovascular Health in Five Countries
Chow, Clara K.; Lock, Karen; Madhavan, Manisha; Corsi, Daniel J.; Gilmore, Anna B.; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata; Li, Wei; Swaminathan, Sumathi; Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio; Avezum, Alvaro; Lear, Scott A.; Dagenais, Gilles; Teo, Koon; McKee, Martin; Yusuf, Salim (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010)Background The environment in which people live is known to be important in influencing diet, physical activity, smoking, psychosocial and other risk factors for cardiovascular (CV) disease. However no instrument exists ... -
Environmental Profile of a Community’s Health (EPOCH): An Ecometric Assessment of Measures of the Community Environment Based on Individual Perception
Corsi, Daniel J.; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata; McKee, Martin; Li, Wei; Swaminathan, Sumathi; Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio; Avezum, Alvaro; Lear, Scott A.; Dagenais, Gilles; Rangarajan, Sumathy; Teo, Koon; Yusuf, Salim; Chow, Clara K. (Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Public health research has turned towards examining upstream, community-level determinants of cardiovascular disease risk factors. Objective measures of the environment, such as those derived from direct ... -
Gender inequity and age-appropriate immunization coverage in India from 1992 to 2006
Corsi, Daniel J.; Diego, Bassani G; Kumar, Rajesh; Awasthi, Shally; Jotkar, Raju; Kaur, Navkiran; Jha, Prabhat (Springer Science + Business Media, 2009)Background A variety of studies have considered the affects of India's son preference on gender differences in child mortality, sex ratio at birth, and access to health services. Less research has focused on the affects ... -
Global Burden of Double Malnutrition: Has Anyone Seen It?
Corsi, Daniel J.; Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Subramanian, S. V. (Public Library of Science, 2011)Background. Low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) are believed to be characterized by the coexistence of underweight and overweight. It has also been posited that such coexistence is appearing among the low socioeconomic ... -
Increasing ambient temperature reduces emotional well-being
Noelke, Clemens; McGovern, Mark T.; Corsi, Daniel J.; Jimenez, Marcia P.; Stern, Ari; Wing, Ian Sue; Berkman, Lisa Faye (Elsevier BV, 2016) -
Socioeconomic and Geographic Patterning of Smoking Behaviour in Canada: A Cross-Sectional Multilevel Analysis
Corsi, Daniel J.; Lear, Scott A.; Chow, Clara K.; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata; Boyle, Michael H.; Teo, Koon K. (Public Library of Science, 2013)Objective: To describe the socioeconomic and geographic distribution of smoking behaviour in Canada among 19,383 individuals (51% women) aged 15–85 years. Methods: Current smoking and quitting were modeled using standard ...