Browsing by Author "Subramanian, Sankaran"
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Are socioeconomic disparities in tobacco consumption increasing in India? A repeated cross-sectional multilevel analysis
Bhan, Nandita; Srivastava, Swati; Agrawal, Sutapa; Subramanyam, Malavika; Millett, Christopher; Selvaraj, Sakthivel; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (BMJ Group, 2012)Objectives: India bears a significant portion of the global tobacco burden with high prevalence of tobacco use. This study examines the socioeconomic patterning of tobacco use and identifies the changing gender and ... -
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 economic growth and early childhood nutrition – Authors' reply
Vollmer, Sebastian; Harttgen, Kenneth; Subramanyam, Malavika A; Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Klasen, Stephan; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Elsevier BV, 2015)Anna Bershteyn and colleagues provide a useful comparison of estimates of the association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition in our study1 with those of previous studies. Their comparative exercise ... -
Association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition: evidence from 121 Demographic and Health Surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries
Vollmer, Sebastian; Harttgen, Kenneth; Subramanyam, Malavika A; Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Klasen, Stephan; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Elsevier BV, 2014)BACKGROUND: Economic growth is widely regarded as a necessary, and often sufficient, condition for the improvement of population health. We aimed to assess whether macroeconomic growth was associated with reductions in ... -
Association Between Interpersonal Trust, Reciprocity, and Depression in South Korea: A Prospective Analysis
Kim, Seung-Sup; Chung, Yeonseung; Perry, Melissa J.; Kawachi, Ichiro; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that low-level social capital is related to poor mental health outcomes. However, the prospective association between social capital and depression remains unclear, ... -
Association between Proximity to a Health Center and Early Childhood Mortality in Madagascar
Kashima, Saori; Suzuki, Etsuji; Okayasu, Toshiharu; Jean Louis, Razafimahatratra; Eboshida, Akira; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Public Library of Science, 2012)Objective: To evaluate the association between proximity to a health center and early childhood mortality in Madagascar, and to assess the influence of household wealth, maternal educational attainment, and maternal health ... -
Association between Short Maternal Height and Low Birth Weight: a Hospital-based Study in Japan
Inoue, Sachiko; Naruse, Hiroo; Yorifuji, Takashi; Kato, Tsuguhiko; Murakoshi, Takeshi; Doi, Hiroyuki; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Korean Academy of Medical Sciences (KAMJE), 2016)Anthropometry measurements, such as height and weight, have recently been used to predict poorer birth outcomes. However, the relationship between maternal height and birth outcomes remains unclear. We examined the effect ... -
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 ... -
Association of Maternal Height With Child Mortality, Anthropometric Failure, and Anemia in India
Subramanian, S.V. Venkata; Ackerson, Leland; Smith, George Davey; John, Neetu A. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2009)CONTEXT: Prior research on the determinants of child health has focused on contemporaneous risk factors such as maternal behaviors, dietary factors, and immediate environmental conditions. Research on intergenerational ... -
Association of Maternal Stature With Offspring Mortality, Underweight, and Stunting in Low- to Middle-Income Countries
Ozaltin, Emre; Hill, Kenneth Hailey; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (American Medical Association (AMA), 2010)CONTEXT: Although maternal stature has been associated with offspring mortality and health, the extent to which this association is universal across developing countries is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association ... -
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 ... -
Changes to the Social Patterning of Economic Resources and the Distribution of Mental and Biological Health Markers
Vable, Anusha Murthy (2015-01-22)This dissertation examines the relationship between life course social mobility and socio-economic disparities in health using data from the Health and Retirement Study. Chapter 1 explores how eligibility for the Korean ... -
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) -
Clarifying the Use of Aggregated Exposures in Multilevel Models: Self-Included vs. Self-Excluded Measures
Suzuki, Etsuji; Yamamoto, Eiji; Takao, Soshi; Kawachi, Ichiro; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Multilevel analyses are ideally suited to assess the effects of ecological (higher level) and individual (lower level) exposure variables simultaneously. In applying such analyses to measures of ecologies in ... -
Clustered risk: An ecological understanding of sexual activity among adolescent boys and girls in two urban slums in Monrovia, Liberia
Gausman, Jewel Marie; Lloyd, Danielle; Kallon, Thomas; Subramanian, Sankaran; Langer, Ana Maria; Austin, Sydney Bryn (Elsevier BV, 2019-03)Many young people experience sexual debut before they are able to manage risk in order to avoid adverse consequences. Gender norms, social position, and power can undermine an adolescent's ability to exercise agency in ... -
Conducting Social Network and Social Norm Research in Low-Resource Settings: Food Insecurity, Depression, and HIV Testing in Rural Uganda
Perkins, Jessica M. (2015-05-18)This dissertation examines the role of social networks and social norms in health outcomes and behaviors among low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), with a particular focus on Uganda. Paper 1 presents a systematic review ... -
Contribution of socioeconomic factors to the variation in body-mass index in 58 low-income and middle-income countries: an econometric analysis of multilevel data
Kim, Rockli; Kawachi, Ichiro; Coull, Brent Andrew; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Elsevier BV, 2018)Background Most epidemiological studies have not simultaneously quantified variance in health within and between populations. We aimed to estimate the extent to which basic socioeconomic factors contribute to variation ... -
County Poverty Concentration and Disparities in Unintentional Injury Deaths: A Fourteen-Year Analysis of 1.6 Million U.S. Fatalities
Karb, Rebecca A.; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata; Fleegler, Eric William (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016)Unintentional injury is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and mortality due to injury has risen over the past decade. The social determinants behind these rising trends have not been well documented. ... -
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 ...