W Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6963-2175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 136 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 136 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1916 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Health and Economic Impact of Periodic Hepatitis C Virus Testing Among People Who Inject Drugs
In this economic evaluation study, based on common benchmarks for cost-effectiveness, frequent HCV testing among PWID was cost-effective in both lower and higher transmission settings
Potential impact of curative and preventive interventions toward hepatitis C elimination in people who inject drugs–A network modeling study
DAA treatments are effective in reducing both prevalence and incidence of HCV infection in PWID, but preventive interventions play a significant role in reducing incidence when intervention coverage is low. Increasing coverage, including efforts in reaching individuals with the most injection partners, preventing reinfection, and improving compliance and retention in preventive services can substantially improve the outcomes. PWID network charact…
Behavioral inhibition in a translational nonhuman primate model
Behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperamental trait first described by Jerome Kagan, is characterized by wariness to unfamiliar persons and novel situations. BI is a moderately stable trait, with biological and genetic underpinnings. Kagan's methodology for assessing BI is widely used in humans. Although this paradigm could be readily translated for use in nonhuman primates, thereby increasing generalizability from nonhuman primates to humans and f…
Investigating the Associations Between Socioeconomic Factors and Unhealthy Days among Adults Using Zero-inflated Negative Binomial Regression
Poor social and economic circumstances affect the health of individuals throughout the life cycle. The purpose of the study was to examine whether state-level and individual-level socioeconomic factors are associated with mentally or physically unhealthy days in the general U.S. population of adults. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the American Community Survey in 2016 were used to examine state-level social determinants of hea…
High-Risk Injection-Related Practices Associated with anti-HCV Positivity among Young Adults Seeking Services in Three Small Cities in Wisconsin
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been increasing among people who inject drugs (PWID), younger than 30 years, and living in rural or suburban areas. We examined injection-related behaviors of young PWID to determine factors associated with HCV infection. METHODS: From September 2013-May 2015, respondent-driven and snowball sampling were used in 3 suburban areas of Wisconsin to recruit PWID 18-29 years who reported injection drug …
Late Pleistocene cryogenesis features of a loess-paleosol sequence in the Srednyaya Akhtuba reference section, Lower Volga river valley, Russia
A review of network simulation models of hepatitis C virus and HIV among people who inject drugs
Behavior change across implementations of the SafeCare model in real world settings
Assessment of age‐related differences in smoking status and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL)
Despite significant declines in the use of cigarettes, a significant proportion of adults smoke. This study explores the association between smoking and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) by age. The 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey was administered to adults in 50 states and District of Columbia (n = 437,195). Physically unhealthy days (PUDs) and mentally unhealthy days (MUDs)) were regressed on age strata (18–24, 25–34…
Kin on the Wing
This paper provides a structural and historical overview of the kinship of a group of Tupi-Guarani-speaking hunter-gatherers, the Ache (Guayaki) of eastern Paraguay. I begin by considering the distinguishing features of Ache kin terminology, describing its characteristic tension between the dimensions of generation and crossness, before considering arguments for historical transformations offered for similar cases in lowland South America. The Ac…
Recruiting the ABCD sample
The ABCD study is a new and ongoing project of very substantial size and scale involving 21 data acquisition sites. It aims to recruit 11,500 children and follow them for ten years with extensive assessments at multiple timepoints. To deliver on its potential to adequately describe adolescent development, it is essential that it adopt recruitment procedures that are efficient and effective and will yield a sample that reflects the nation's divers…
Quality-adjusted Life Years (Qaly) for 15 Chronic Conditions and Combinations of Conditions Among US Adults Aged 65 and Older
BACKGROUND: Although the life expectancy for the US population has increased, a high proportion of this population has lived with ≥1 chronic conditions. We have quantified the burden of disease associated with 15 chronic conditions and combinations of conditions by estimating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for older US adults. RESEARCH DESIGN: Data were from the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Cohort 15 (baseline survey in 2012, follow-up su…
Mental health differences between men and women caregivers, BRFSS 2009
This study uses data from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS) to examine differences between male and female caregivers by demographics, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and the effect of social support on HRQOL. Roughly two-thirds of caregivers were women, and demographic characteristics differed among men and women caregivers. Women caregivers reported significantly more mentally and physically unhealthy days tha…
Organizing Missions into Distant Lands
This paper analyzes the medical measures initiated by medical missionaries in the second half of nineteenth century in Kashmir. It was a significant period in the history of Kashmir on account of various economic and political developments. Similarly the valley of Kashmir witnessed an arrival of medical missionaries who introduced the modern forms of medicine and later on this task was persuaded by the colonial masters while reforming and reorgan…
Regional power and local ecologies
Resident characteristics and neighborhood environments on health‐related quality of life and stress
Relatively little research has attempted to disentangle the individual and neighborhood conditions underlying health disparities. To address this, survey data were collected from 1,107 residents living in one of the 114 census tracts. Results from a multilevel structural equation model found an individual's perceptions of the social and built environment were significantly associated with their current physical health, mental health, and perceive…
Childhood Adversity and Adult Chronic Disease
Examination of the factorial structure of adverse childhood experiences and recommendations for three subscale scores.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the current investigation is to assess and validate the factor structure of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System's (BRFSS) Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) module. METHOD: ACE data available from the 2009 BRFSS survey were fit using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to estimate an initial factorial structure. The exploratory solution was then validated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with data from t…
A Multisite Study of the Prevalence of HIV With Rapid Testing in Mental Health Settings
Objectives. We estimated HIV prevalence and risk factors among persons receiving mental health treatment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, January 2009 to August 2011. Methods. We used a multisite, cross-sectional design stratified by clinical setting. We tested 1061 individuals for HIV in university-based inpatient psychiatric units (n = 287), intensive case-management programs (n = 273), and community mental health centers…
Pulmonary function, chronic respiratory symptoms, and health-related quality of life among adults in the United States – National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007–2010
These results suggest the importance of chronic respiratory symptoms as potential risk factors for poor HRQOL and suggest improved symptom treatment and prevention efforts would likely improve HRQOL
Monitoring population health for Healthy People 2020
Quality-adjusted life expectancy (Qale) loss due to smoking in the United States
Health-Related Quality of Life Among Older Adults With and Without Functional Limitations
Objectives. We examined factors that influence health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among individuals aged 50 years and older with and without functional limitations. Methods. We analyzed data from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to assess associations among demographic characteristics, health care access and utilization indicators, modifiable health behaviors, and HRQOL characterized by recent physically and mentally unheal…
Development and psychometric evaluation of the public health surveillance well-being scale
State Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy for U.S. adults from 1993 to 2008
Population
There are three types of countries in the world today as regards their population growth. Group A.-These countries have a very rapidly declining birth-rate, and although their death-rates are low their rates of natural increase are declining and they are rapidly approaching a stationary or decreasing population because of the general practice of conception control. Group B.-Birth-rates are coming under control in these countries, but rather slowl…
Population
The data on the movement of our population during 1927 are of great interest in several respects. New low birth-rates have been achieved, the rate for the registration area being 20.4. This is kept from resulting in the lowest natural increase we have ever had by the very low death-rate of 11.4 (the lowest in our history). The infant mortality rate has also fallen to a new low level at 64.3. One of the most interesting facts, however, is that the…
Europe on the Move
Population Trends in the United States
The Struggle for Population
A Multisite Study of the Prevalence of HIV With Rapid Testing in Mental Health Settings
Objectives. We estimated HIV prevalence and risk factors among persons receiving mental health treatment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, January 2009 to August 2011. Methods. We used a multisite, cross-sectional design stratified by clinical setting. We tested 1061 individuals for HIV in university-based inpatient psychiatric units (n = 287), intensive case-management programs (n = 273), and community mental health centers…
Health-Related Quality of Life Among Older Adults With and Without Functional Limitations
Objectives. We examined factors that influence health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among individuals aged 50 years and older with and without functional limitations. Methods. We analyzed data from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to assess associations among demographic characteristics, health care access and utilization indicators, modifiable health behaviors, and HRQOL characterized by recent physically and mentally unheal…
Migration and Distance
THE DISTANCE which must be spanned in migrating is generally regarded as one of the principal factors influencing the number and characteristics of migrants which arrive at or leave a given point.' Because only fragmentary data have been available until recently, it has been almost impossible to form even a vague notion of the extent to which distance acts as a barrier to internal migration in the United States. Also relatively little is known co…
Population and Peace in the Pacific
Estimating Influenza-Associated Deaths in the United States
Most estimates of US deaths associated with influenza circulation have been similar despite the use of different approaches. However, a recently published estimate suggested that previous estimates substantially overestimated deaths associated with influenza, and concluded that substantial numbers of deaths during a future pandemic could be prevented because of improvements in medical care. We reviewed the data sources and methods used to estimat…
Population and Progress in the far East
This book is the third of a series on population changes and their political consequences written by Professor Thompson over the course of the last thirty years. In it he assembles a host of facts regarding the populations and economies of the countries from Japan to Pakistan, from China to Indonesia. His data are up to the minute; they include the change to extra-constitutional governments in Pakistan and Burma during 1958; the financial difficu…
The Distribution of Population
Raw Materials, Population Pressure and War
Kin on the Wing
This paper provides a structural and historical overview of the kinship of a group of Tupi-Guarani-speaking hunter-gatherers, the Ache (Guayaki) of eastern Paraguay. I begin by considering the distinguishing features of Ache kin terminology, describing its characteristic tension between the dimensions of generation and crossness, before considering arguments for historical transformations offered for similar cases in lowland South America. The Ac…
Population Theory and Policy
Growth and Changes in California's Population
Population and Peace in the Pacific
Plenty of People
Population Studies
Population study has been determined at any given time by the social situation which indicated the investigation of a particular problem and by the interest of workers rather than by any "logical" development. This is shown by the rapid shift in interest from immigration to differential fertility, to future growth, to international growth and changes, to the internal migration and distribution of people, and to the consequences of these changes. …
Changes in Regional and Urban Patterns of Population Growth
Behavior change across implementations of the SafeCare model in real world settings
Assessment of age‐related differences in smoking status and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL)
Despite significant declines in the use of cigarettes, a significant proportion of adults smoke. This study explores the association between smoking and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) by age. The 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey was administered to adults in 50 states and District of Columbia (n = 437,195). Physically unhealthy days (PUDs) and mentally unhealthy days (MUDs)) were regressed on age strata (18–24, 25–34…
Resident characteristics and neighborhood environments on health‐related quality of life and stress
Relatively little research has attempted to disentangle the individual and neighborhood conditions underlying health disparities. To address this, survey data were collected from 1,107 residents living in one of the 114 census tracts. Results from a multilevel structural equation model found an individual's perceptions of the social and built environment were significantly associated with their current physical health, mental health, and perceive…
The demographics of disability in the south
The Philippines in Crisis
The eruption of Mt. Pinatuba represented more than the smothering of America's Clark Air Force Base and many of President Corazon Aquino's development plans. It also served as a metaphor both for the
A Study in Malthusianism
Race suicide in the United States
The question of the relative rates of increase of the population of old native stock and of that of immigrant stocks is one which has attracted the attention of anthropologists and students of our population movements for half a century or more.Studies of population movements in New England made more than fifty years ago showed that the birth rate among the people of native stock had been falling steadily since 1800, and that the Irish immigrants…
The Control of Parenthood.James Marchant
Rural Social Organization. Edwin L. Earp
Rural New York. E. O. Fippin
The Problem of Population
Hope Farm Notes. Herbert W. Collingwood
The Problem of Population.Harold Cox
Eugenics and the Social Good
Eugenics and the Social Good Warren S. Thompson Warren S. Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 1925, Pages 414–419, https://doi.org/10.2307/3004978 Published: 01 March 1925
The Wage-System and Family Survival
Journal Article The Wage-System and Family Survival Get access Warren S. Thompson Warren S. Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 4, Issue 2, December 1925, Pages 399–407, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/4.2.399 Published: 01 December 1925
Britain's Population Problem as Seen by an American
The Family as a Unit of Survival
Journal Article The Family as a Unit of Survival Get access Warren S. Thompson Warren S. Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 7, Issue 1, September 1928, Pages 141–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/7.1.141 Published: 01 September 1928
Population
The data on the movement of our population during 1927 are of great interest in several respects. New low birth-rates have been achieved, the rate for the registration area being 20.4. This is kept from resulting in the lowest natural increase we have ever had by the very low death-rate of 11.4 (the lowest in our history). The infant mortality rate has also fallen to a new low level at 64.3. One of the most interesting facts, however, is that the…
The Balance of Births and Deaths
Population
There are three types of countries in the world today as regards their population growth. Group A.-These countries have a very rapidly declining birth-rate, and although their death-rates are low their rates of natural increase are declining and they are rapidly approaching a stationary or decreasing population because of the general practice of conception control. Group B.-Birth-rates are coming under control in these countries, but rather slowl…
Recent Changes in the Birth Rate and Their Significance for Child Welfare
Population Problems
Population Problems and Theories
Journal Article Population Problems and Theories Get access H. G. Duncan H. G. Duncan University of New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 10, Issue 1, October 1931, Pages 145–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/10.1.145 Published: 01 October 1931
The Balance of Births and Deaths. Robert R. Kuczynski
Population Trends in the United States
A "Recent Social Trends" Monograph
Population Theories and Their Application. E. F. Penrose
Contributi del Laboratorio di Statistica
La Mortalita Antenatale.Salvatore Alberti
Dynamics of Population.Frank Lorimer , Frederick Osborn
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