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Predictors of Vaccination in India for Children Aged 12–36 Months by Shrivastwa, Nijika, PhD, MHSA, MPH, Gillespie, Brenda W., PhD, Kolenic, Giselle E., MA, Lepkowski, James M., PhD, Boulton, Matthew L., MD, MPH

“…Introduction India has one of the lowest immunization rates worldwide despite a longstanding Universal Immunization Program (UIP) that provides free childhood…”
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Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: the role of health-risk behaviors by Lantz, Paula M, Lynch, John W, House, James S, Lepkowski, James M, Mero, Richard P, Musick, Marc A, Williams, David R

“…This study investigated the hypothesis that socioeconomic differences in health status change can largely be explained by the higher prevalence of individual…”
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Attitudes of pregnant women towards collection of biological specimens during pregnancy and at birth by Nechuta, Sarah, Mudd, Lanay M., Elliott, Michael R., Lepkowski, James M., Paneth, Nigel

“…Summary Nechuta S, Mudd LM, Elliott MR, Lepkowski JM, Paneth N, the Michigan Alliance for the National Children's Study. Attitudes of pregnant women towards…”
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Estimation of Background Serum 2,3,7,8-TCDD Concentrations By Using Quantile Regression in the UMDES and NHANES Populations by Chen, Qixuan, Garabrant, David H., Hedgeman, Elizabeth, Little, Roderick J. A., Elliott, Michael R., Gillespie, Brenda, Hong, Biling, Lee, Shih-Yuan, Lepkowski, James M., Franzblau, Alfred, Adriaens, Peter, Demond, Avery H., Patterson, Donald G.

“…Background: The goal of the present study was to quantify the population-based background serum concentrations of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) by…”
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Attitudes of pregnant women towards participation in perinatal epidemiological research by Nechuta, Sarah, Mudd, Lanay M., Biery, Lynette, Elliott, Michael R., Lepkowski, James M., Paneth, Nigel

“…Summary We assessed attitudes of a multi‐ethnic sample of pregnant women in regard to participation in five data collection procedures planned for use in the…”
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Vaccination Inequality in India, 2002–2013 by Bettampadi, Deepti, Lepkowski, James M., Sen, Ananda, Power, Laura E., Boulton, Matthew L.

“…India's childhood vaccination coverage has increased amid the implementation of national health policies intended to improve immunization levels. However,…”
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Evaluating the Demographic and Health Surveys Mode Switch From PAPI to CAPI: An Experiment From Turkey by Adalı, Tuğba, Türkyılmaz, Ahmet Sinan, Lepkowski, James M.

“…The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have been carried out in over 90 countries since 1984, as interviewer administered household surveys conducted…”
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Vaccination Timeliness in Children Under India’s Universal Immunization Program by Shrivastwa, Nijika, Gillespie, Brenda W, Lepkowski, James M, Boulton, Matthew L

“…BACKGROUND:India has the highest number of deaths among children younger than 5 years of age globally; the majority are from vaccine preventable diseases…”
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The Social Stratification of Aging and Health by House, James S., Lepkowski, James M., Kinney, Ann M., Mero, Richard P., Kessler, Ronald C., Herzog, A. Regula

“…The way health varies with age is importantly stratified by socioeconomic status (SES)-specifically, education and income. Prior theory and cross-sectional…”
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Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Life Span (HANDLS): Overcoming Barriers to Implementing a Longitudinal, Epidemiologic, Urban Study of Health, Race, and Socioeconomic Status by Evans, Michele K., Lepkowski, James M., Powe, Neil R., LaVeist, Thomas, Kuczmarski, Marie Fanelli, Zonderman, Alan B.

“…Examine the influences of race, socioeconomic status, sex, and age on barriers to participation in a study of cross-sectional differences and longitudinal…”
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Predictors of vaccination in India for children aged 12–36 months by Shrivastwa, Nijika, Gillespie, Brenda W, Kolenic, Giselle E, Lepkowski, James M, Boulton, Matthew L

“…Abstract Introduction India has one of the lowest immunization rates worldwide despite a longstanding Universal Immunization Program (UIP) that provides free…”
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Obesity and Sugar-sweetened Beverages in African-American Preschool Children: A Longitudinal Study by Lim, Sungwoo, Zoellner, Jamie M, Lee, Joyce M, Burt, Brian A, Sandretto, Anita M, Sohn, Woosung, Ismail, Amid I, Lepkowski, James M

“…A representative sample of 365 low‐income African‐American preschool children aged 3–5 years was studied to determine the association between sugar‐sweetened…”
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Exploring the Feasibility of Mail Surveys in Urban China by Zhang, Chan, Lepkowski, James M., He, Lirui

“…While mail surveys are common in many developed countries, it is still a new method in other, often less-developed countries. This study explores the…”
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Evaluation of a brief tailored motivational intervention to prevent early childhood caries by Ismail, Amid I., Ondersma, Steven, Willem Jedele, Jenefer M., Little, Roderick J., Lepkowski, James M.

“…Ismail AI, Ondersma S, Willem Jedele JM, Little RJ, Lepkowski JM. Evaluation of a brief tailored motivational intervention to prevent early childhood caries…”
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Perceptions of alcohol-impaired driving and the blood alcohol concentration standard in the United States by Eby, David W., Molnar, Lisa J., Kostyniuk, Lidia P., St. Louis, Renée M., Zanier, Nicole, Lepkowski, James M., Bergen, Gwen

“…Although the number of alcohol-impaired driving (AID) fatalities has declined over the past several years, AID continues to be a serious public health problem…”
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Percentage and severity of periodontal diseases in Turkish adults aged 35+ years, 2009‐10 by Ilhan, Duygu, Oktay, Inci, Nur, Burcu, Fisekcioglu, Erdogan, Lim, Sungwoo, Lepkowski, James M., Ismail, Amid I.

“…Objective This article presents data on the burden of periodontal diseases in Turkish adults aged 35 years or older. Methods Within each region of Turkey, a…”
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Development of a Psychosocial Distress Measure for Ugandan Adolescents Living with HIV by Mutumba, Massy, Resnicow, Ken, Bauermeister, José A., Harper, Gary W., Musiime, Victor, Snow, Rachel C., Lepkowski, James M.

“…Psychological distress among adolescents living with HIV (ALH) has been associated with risky behaviors including non-adherence to anti-retroviral therapy,…”
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Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behaviors, and Mortality: Results From a Nationally Representative Prospective Study of US Adults by Lantz, Paula M, House, James S, Lepkowski, James M, Williams, David R, Mero, Richard P, Chen, Jieming

“…CONTEXT.— A prominent hypothesis regarding social inequalities in mortality is that the elevated risk among the socioeconomically disadvantaged is largely due…”
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Utilities of dentin regeneration among insured and uninsured adults by Ismail, Amid I., Birch, Stephen, Sohn, Woosung, Lepkowski, James M., Belli, Robert F.

“…–  Objectives:  This population‐based study measured utilities (preferences measured under conditions of uncertainty) of dentin regeneration (DR), a potential…”
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Estimation of age- and sex-specific background human serum concentrations of PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs in the UMDES and NHANES populations by Chen, Qixuan, Jiang, Xiaohui, Hedgeman, Elizabeth, Knutson, Kristine, Gillespie, Brenda, Hong, Biling, Lepkowski, James M., Franzblau, Alfred, Jolliet, Olivier, Adriaens, Peter, Demond, Avery H., Garabrant, David H.

“…► First use of quantile regression to estimate distribution of serum dioxin levels. ► Combining NHANES with UMDES referent data provides better percentile…”
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