Naomi M Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 112622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi M Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi M |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Free or low-cost geoinformatics for disaster management
The disaster management applications of geographical information systems and remote sensing are examined relative to the disaster cycle, in pre-disaster, crisis and post-disaster contexts. We focus on the uses and limitations of free or low-cost data and software. A wide range of geospatial datasets are currently freely available, from digital elevation models (DEMs) and thematic digital maps, to multispectral satellite imagery and virtual globes…
Low-Cost Remote Sensing and GIS for Regional Disaster Risk Reduction, North West Costa Rica
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. The increased number and scale of natural disasters in recent years has resulted in loss of life and longterm negative social, economic, and environmental impacts, particularly in developing countries. Hazards are processes which occur in the natural environment and can damage human life, property, or both. Vulnerability is comprised of the people in their environment and their e…
The Evolution of Humanitarian Action
Journal Article The Evolution of Humanitarian Action Get access Nicholas Morris Nicholas Morris * * The author was a UNHCR staff member from 1973 to 2001. Headquarters assignments included appointments as the first Chief of the UNHCR Emergency Unit, as Deputy Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa, and as Director of the Division of Programmes and Operational Support. He served as the High Commissioner's Special Envoy for the Gulf emergency (…
The influence of socioeconomic position on health--and vice versa
The influence of socioeconomic position on health--and vice versa. N M MorrisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.11.1649-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Androgen effects on women's gendered behaviour
Test of the applicability of the hormonal theory of sex-dimorphic behaviour to adult women is achieved in this study by assembling measures of prenatal and adult androgen exposure, and a broad measure of gendered behaviour on a sample of white women aged 27–30. Androgen exposure in the second (and no other) trimester of fetal life, combined with and in interaction with adult androgens, masculinises women's behaviour and explains a substantial pro…
Childhood precursors of age at first intercourse for females
Asking About the Usual Source of Care
From the School of Social Welfare and School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York †From the Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Prepregnancy Care
Professor and Director Community Health Sciences School of Public Health University of Illinois at Chicago
Marital sex frequency and midcycle female testosterone
Biosocial foundations for adolescent female sexuality
Despite the widespread assumption that hormones stimulate motivation for sexual behavior in adolescence, no published empirical studies have demonstrated this link. In a cross-sectional study of 78 females in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades in public schools, we show that hormones have effects on sexual motivation and behavior. Comparison with previous results from a parallel sample of males indicates that for both sexes these effects are pri…
Pubertal Development and Friends
Edward A. Smith, J. Richard Udry, Naomi M. Morris, Pubertal Development and Friends: A Biosocial Explanation of Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 183-192
Menstruation and Marital Sex
Using daily report data from 85 husbands and wives for about 100 days each, this paper explores differences in sexual behaviour between menstrual and non-menstrual days. Intercourse and orgasm are reduced during menstruation, in association with impressively less female desire for intercourse during menstruation. In the highly educated group studied, the women respond to a resultant potential increase in male sexual frustration by providing the h…
The biological advantages and social disadvantages of teenage pregnancy
The biological advantages and social disadvantages of teenage pregnancy. N M MorrisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.8.796 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Pediatric Health Promotion through Risk Reduction
The purpose of pediatric risk reduction is to both decrease the force of mortality acting in infancy and childhood and to promote the development of physically and emotionally comfortable adults. Due to the fact that much of the organism's capacity for optimal growth and development seems to be established during childhood, the ultimate potential of pediatric risk reduction is the improvement of the quality of life throughout its entire course. I…
Validation of a self-administered instrument to assess stage of adolescent development
Pheromonal influences on human sexual behaviour
An experiment was designed to test the effect of a synthetic hypothetical human female pheromone on sexual behaviour. Sixty-two married couples participated for 3 menstrual months. No effect was found.
Relative contribution of male and female age to the frequency of marital intercourse
Using three recent samples of American married couples of childbearing age, we examined the relative contribution of male and female age to the decline in the frequency of marital intercourse with age. Contrary to the widely held belief that only male age contributes to the decline, we found a substantial contribution of female age. In the 1965 sample, the contribution of each sex was about the same. In the 1974 sample, the contribution of female…
Changes in women's preferences for the racial composition of medical facilities, 1969-1974
Changes in women's preferences for the racial composition of medical facilities, 1969-1974. J R Udry, N M Morris, and K E BaumanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.3.284 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The effect of subsidized family planning services on reproductive behavior in the United States, 1969–1974
This paper evaluates the impact of federally subsidized family planning programs in the United States, from 1969 to 1974, on the reproductive behavior of ever-married women, 15–44 years old. The study began with an experimental design and the random assigment of areas to treatment and control but was completed as a multivariate analysis, treating program input as an interval-scaled independent variable. Using “before” and “after” area sample surv…
The Teenage Pregnant Girl
The Teenage Pregnant Girl Naomi M. Morris CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.10.1117 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Shifting age-parity distribution of births and the decrease in infant mortality
Shifting age-parity distribution of births and the decrease in infant mortality. N M Morris, J R Udry, and C L ChaseCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.4.359 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The frequency of sexual intercourse during pregnancy
Changes in Premarital Coital Experience of Recent Decade-of-Birth Cohorts of Urban American Women
J. Richard Udry, Karl E. Bauman, Naomi M. Morris, Changes in Premarital Coital Experience of Recent Decade-of-Birth Cohorts of Urban American Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 4, Special Section: Macrosociology of the Family (Nov., 1975), pp. 783-787
Correlates of Female Powerlessness
To determine if powerlessness is an intervening variable influencing family size contraceptive practice and/or method selection a 5-item scale was administered to 2 samples of ever-married women ages 15-44: Guamanians surveyed in islandwide public health clinics and U.S. white and black women interviewed at home in low-income census tracts of 17 cities. Female powerlessness directly correlated with parity in all but U.S. black women when controll…
Reduction of Low Birth Weight Birth Rates by the Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies
Reduction of Low Birth Weight Birth Rates by the Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies Naomi M. Morris, J. Richard Udry, and Charles L. Chase CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.11.935 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Validation of a self-administered instrument to assess stage of adolescent development
Biosocial foundations for adolescent female sexuality
Despite the widespread assumption that hormones stimulate motivation for sexual behavior in adolescence, no published empirical studies have demonstrated this link. In a cross-sectional study of 78 females in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades in public schools, we show that hormones have effects on sexual motivation and behavior. Comparison with previous results from a parallel sample of males indicates that for both sexes these effects are pri…
Seasonality of coitus and seasonality of birth
En todas las poblaciones estudiadas se ha observado quehay una variación estacional en la tasade natalidad. Se han adelantado muchas hipótesis para explicaresiavariación, incluyendo una variación estacional en lafrecuenciadel coiio, Se sabe que ésta relación es eierta para otros primates, peroen el hombre, no se ha documentado anteriormente una variación estacional en la tasa de coiios. Este trabajo presenia datos equivalentes a más deciem años-m…
Shifting age-parity distribution of births and the decrease in infant mortality
Shifting age-parity distribution of births and the decrease in infant mortality. N M Morris, J R Udry, and C L ChaseCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.4.359 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Pubertal Development and Friends
Edward A. Smith, J. Richard Udry, Naomi M. Morris, Pubertal Development and Friends: A Biosocial Explanation of Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 183-192
Marital sex frequency and midcycle female testosterone
A Method for Validation of Reported Sexual Data
IN THE past 30 years, it has become commonplace to collect interview and questionnaire data about the personal sexual behavior of respondents, and most researchers have come to take it for granted that if the questions are asked in a reasonable and non-threatening way, they will be answered. The problem which continues to nag is the matter of validity of the response. Did the respondent actually do what he said he did? In methodological discussio…
Changes in Premarital Coital Experience of Recent Decade-of-Birth Cohorts of Urban American Women
J. Richard Udry, Karl E. Bauman, Naomi M. Morris, Changes in Premarital Coital Experience of Recent Decade-of-Birth Cohorts of Urban American Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 4, Special Section: Macrosociology of the Family (Nov., 1975), pp. 783-787
The biological advantages and social disadvantages of teenage pregnancy
The biological advantages and social disadvantages of teenage pregnancy. N M MorrisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.8.796 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Relative contribution of male and female age to the frequency of marital intercourse
Using three recent samples of American married couples of childbearing age, we examined the relative contribution of male and female age to the decline in the frequency of marital intercourse with age. Contrary to the widely held belief that only male age contributes to the decline, we found a substantial contribution of female age. In the 1965 sample, the contribution of each sex was about the same. In the 1974 sample, the contribution of female…
Childhood precursors of age at first intercourse for females
The effect of subsidized family planning services on reproductive behavior in the United States, 1969–1974
This paper evaluates the impact of federally subsidized family planning programs in the United States, from 1969 to 1974, on the reproductive behavior of ever-married women, 15–44 years old. The study began with an experimental design and the random assigment of areas to treatment and control but was completed as a multivariate analysis, treating program input as an interval-scaled independent variable. Using “before” and “after” area sample surv…
Effect of contraceptive pills on sexual activity in the luteal phase of the human menstrual cycle
The Evolution of Humanitarian Action
Journal Article The Evolution of Humanitarian Action Get access Nicholas Morris Nicholas Morris * * The author was a UNHCR staff member from 1973 to 2001. Headquarters assignments included appointments as the first Chief of the UNHCR Emergency Unit, as Deputy Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa, and as Director of the Division of Programmes and Operational Support. He served as the High Commissioner's Special Envoy for the Gulf emergency (…
Reduction of Low Birth Weight Birth Rates by the Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies
Reduction of Low Birth Weight Birth Rates by the Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies Naomi M. Morris, J. Richard Udry, and Charles L. Chase CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.11.935 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Changes in women's preferences for the racial composition of medical facilities, 1969-1974
Changes in women's preferences for the racial composition of medical facilities, 1969-1974. J R Udry, N M Morris, and K E BaumanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.3.284 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The frequency of sexual intercourse during pregnancy
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. J R Udry, and N M MorrisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.4.776 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Sexual frequency and contraceptive pills
To determine whether oral contraceptives particularly their progestin component decrease sexual behavior 51 marrried women took part in a 3 month double-blind survey. Subjects were clinic patients graduate student wives or members of a religious congregation who were already using another contraceptive and had not used the pill or been pregnant in 3 months nor had they discontinued the pill previously for side effects. They took placebo for one c…
Pregnancy testing as a fertility measurement technique
Pregnancy testing as a fertility measurement technique: a preliminary report on field results. J R Udry, S Keovichit, R Burnright, D O Cowgill, N M Morris, and C YamaratCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.2.344 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Prevalence of Heart Disease in Relation to Some Population Characteristics of Colorado School Children
Prevalence of Heart Disease in Relation to Some Population Characteristics of Colorado School Children H. J. Dodge, George J. Maresh, and Naomi M. Morris CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.48.1.62 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Children in Day Care
CHILDREN IN DAY CARE: A HEALTH-FOCUSED LOOK AT CURRENT PRACTICES IN A COMMUNITY Naomi M. Morris, Research AssociateM.D.M.P.H., Ann DeHuff Peters, Associate Professor of Maternal and Child HealthM.D.F.A.P.H.A., and Sidney S. Chipman, Professor of Maternal and Child HealthM.D.M.P.H.F.A.P.H.A. CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.54.1.44 Published Online: October 03, 2011
Deterrents to well-child supervision
Deterrents to well-child supervision. N M Morris, M H Hatch, and S S ChipmanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.56.8.1232 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Seasonality of coitus and seasonality of birth
En todas las poblaciones estudiadas se ha observado quehay una variación estacional en la tasade natalidad. Se han adelantado muchas hipótesis para explicaresiavariación, incluyendo una variación estacional en lafrecuenciadel coiio, Se sabe que ésta relación es eierta para otros primates, peroen el hombre, no se ha documentado anteriormente una variación estacional en la tasa de coiios. Este trabajo presenia datos equivalentes a más deciem años-m…
A Method for Validation of Reported Sexual Data
IN THE past 30 years, it has become commonplace to collect interview and questionnaire data about the personal sexual behavior of respondents, and most researchers have come to take it for granted that if the questions are asked in a reasonable and non-threatening way, they will be answered. The problem which continues to nag is the matter of validity of the response. Did the respondent actually do what he said he did? In methodological discussio…
Frequency of intercourse by day of the week∗
There seems to be a casual consensus among scholars and laymen that the probability of coitus occurring on Saturday and Sunday is higher than the probability for other days in the week. Although we have not been able to locate a single piece of published data to this effect, we have been told by colleagues who have informally examined coital calendars collected in infertility clinics that weekends are big on these calendars. The usual explanation…
Social Class, Social Mobility, and Prematurity
J. Richard Udry, Naomi M. Morris, Karl E. Bauman, Charles L. Chase, Social Class, Social Mobility, and Prematurity: A Test of the Childhood Environment Hypothesis for Negro Women, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Sep., 1970), pp. 190-195
Pregnancy testing as a fertility measurement technique
Pregnancy testing as a fertility measurement technique: a preliminary report on field results. J R Udry, S Keovichit, R Burnright, D O Cowgill, N M Morris, and C YamaratCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.2.344 Published Online: August 29, 2011
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. J R Udry, and N M MorrisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.4.776 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Sexual frequency and contraceptive pills
To determine whether oral contraceptives particularly their progestin component decrease sexual behavior 51 marrried women took part in a 3 month double-blind survey. Subjects were clinic patients graduate student wives or members of a religious congregation who were already using another contraceptive and had not used the pill or been pregnant in 3 months nor had they discontinued the pill previously for side effects. They took placebo for one c…
Reduction of Low Birth Weight Birth Rates by the Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies
Reduction of Low Birth Weight Birth Rates by the Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies Naomi M. Morris, J. Richard Udry, and Charles L. Chase CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.11.935 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Effect of contraceptive pills on sexual activity in the luteal phase of the human menstrual cycle
Correlates of Female Powerlessness
To determine if powerlessness is an intervening variable influencing family size contraceptive practice and/or method selection a 5-item scale was administered to 2 samples of ever-married women ages 15-44: Guamanians surveyed in islandwide public health clinics and U.S. white and black women interviewed at home in low-income census tracts of 17 cities. Female powerlessness directly correlated with parity in all but U.S. black women when controll…
The Teenage Pregnant Girl
The Teenage Pregnant Girl Naomi M. Morris CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.10.1117 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Shifting age-parity distribution of births and the decrease in infant mortality
Shifting age-parity distribution of births and the decrease in infant mortality. N M Morris, J R Udry, and C L ChaseCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.4.359 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The frequency of sexual intercourse during pregnancy
Changes in Premarital Coital Experience of Recent Decade-of-Birth Cohorts of Urban American Women
J. Richard Udry, Karl E. Bauman, Naomi M. Morris, Changes in Premarital Coital Experience of Recent Decade-of-Birth Cohorts of Urban American Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 4, Special Section: Macrosociology of the Family (Nov., 1975), pp. 783-787
Changes in women's preferences for the racial composition of medical facilities, 1969-1974
Changes in women's preferences for the racial composition of medical facilities, 1969-1974. J R Udry, N M Morris, and K E BaumanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.3.284 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The effect of subsidized family planning services on reproductive behavior in the United States, 1969–1974
This paper evaluates the impact of federally subsidized family planning programs in the United States, from 1969 to 1974, on the reproductive behavior of ever-married women, 15–44 years old. The study began with an experimental design and the random assigment of areas to treatment and control but was completed as a multivariate analysis, treating program input as an interval-scaled independent variable. Using “before” and “after” area sample surv…
Pheromonal influences on human sexual behaviour
An experiment was designed to test the effect of a synthetic hypothetical human female pheromone on sexual behaviour. Sixty-two married couples participated for 3 menstrual months. No effect was found.
Relative contribution of male and female age to the frequency of marital intercourse
Using three recent samples of American married couples of childbearing age, we examined the relative contribution of male and female age to the decline in the frequency of marital intercourse with age. Contrary to the widely held belief that only male age contributes to the decline, we found a substantial contribution of female age. In the 1965 sample, the contribution of each sex was about the same. In the 1974 sample, the contribution of female…
Pediatric Health Promotion through Risk Reduction
The purpose of pediatric risk reduction is to both decrease the force of mortality acting in infancy and childhood and to promote the development of physically and emotionally comfortable adults. Due to the fact that much of the organism's capacity for optimal growth and development seems to be established during childhood, the ultimate potential of pediatric risk reduction is the improvement of the quality of life throughout its entire course. I…
Validation of a self-administered instrument to assess stage of adolescent development
The biological advantages and social disadvantages of teenage pregnancy
The biological advantages and social disadvantages of teenage pregnancy. N M MorrisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.8.796 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Menstruation and Marital Sex
Using daily report data from 85 husbands and wives for about 100 days each, this paper explores differences in sexual behaviour between menstrual and non-menstrual days. Intercourse and orgasm are reduced during menstruation, in association with impressively less female desire for intercourse during menstruation. In the highly educated group studied, the women respond to a resultant potential increase in male sexual frustration by providing the h…
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