Blacks, whites, and attitudes towards abortion

This article examines patterns of black and white support forabortion from 1972 to 1980. The findings reveal that black-whitedifferences are present on the abortion issue. Many of the differencesare due to the different demographic characteristics of blacksand whites and the greater degree of religiosity of blacks.     

Maternal care receptivity--an innovative approach for the evaluation of MCH services

Despite rapid expansion in the maternal and child health and family planning services, there have been few attempts made to study the extent of utilisation of these services and their impact. The present study reports a simple method evolved in the quantification of utilisation of maternal care services (called maternal care receptivity - MCR), the relationship of factors such as age, parity, caste of the women and the distance of the health centre on the MCR and the impact of MCR on perinatal and neonatal mortalities. An inverse relationship was observed between MCR and perinatal and neonatal mortality rates and the two rates were three times less among babies born to mothers with high MCR scores compared to those with poor MCR scores.     

THE DUALITY DIAGRAM IN DATA ANALYSIS: EXAMPLES OF MODERN APPLICATIONS

Today's data-heavy research environment requires the integration of different sources of information into structured datasets that can not be analyzed as simple matrices. We introduce an old technique, known in the European data analyses circles as the Duality Diagram Approach, put to new uses through the use of a variety of metrics and ways of combining different diagrams together. This issue of the Annals of Applied Statistics contains contemporary examples of how this approach provides solutions to hard problems in data integration. We present here the genesis of the technique and how it can be seen as a precursor of the modern kernel based approaches.     

美国温泉印第安人保留地

温泉印第安人保留地,位于美国俄勒冈州中部偏北的干旱沙漠地区。这个保留地内住有瓦斯科、温泉和派乌特三个部落,共同组成一个温泉印第安人部落联盟,人口总共不过2,300人。温泉印第安人保留地中的印第安人,原先是住在哥伦比亚河两岸地区的哥伦比亚河印第安人,他们依靠捕捞哥伦比亚河中的鲑鱼,猎捕喀斯喀特山中的动物以及采集野果     

苏联伊斯兰教与民族

伊斯兰教是苏联的第二大宗教。1979年,苏联总人口为26,200万人,其中穆斯林有4,400万人。他们居住在中亚和哈萨克斯坦、南高加索和伏尔加河中游一带。当前,苏联是世界上穆斯林人口最多的第五个国家,仅次于印度尼西亚、巴基斯坦、印度和孟加拉。在苏联,每六个公民中就有一名穆斯林。由于俄罗斯人和其他斯拉夫人(乌克兰人和白俄罗斯人)出生率十分低,而穆斯林各族     

Opportunities for woman-initiated HIV prevention methods among female sex workers in southern China

Rapid changes in China over the past two decades have led to significant problems associated with population migration and changing social attitudes, including a growing sex industry and concurrent increases in STIs and HIV. This article reports results of an exploratory study of microbicide acceptability and readiness and current HIV prevention efforts among female sex workers in two rural and one urban town in Hainan and Guangxi Provinces in southern China. The study focused on these women's knowledge and cultural understandings of options for protecting themselves from exposure to STIs and HIV, and the potential viability and acceptability of woman-initiated prevention methods. We report on ethnographic elicitation interviews conducted with women working within informal sex-work establishments (hotels, massage and beauty parlors, roadside restaurants, boarding houses). We discuss implications of these findings for further promotion of woman-initiated prevention methods such as microbicides and female condoms among female sex workers in China.