John W Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 113001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6379-5451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Age and Fertility
Postponing the start of childbearing raises the question of fertility postponed versus fertility foregone. One of the limitations of previous studies of ‘How late can you wait?’ is that any observed decline in the probability of conception with age could be due to a decline in fecundability with age or due to a decline in coital frequency with age or due to both factors. Using data from a multinational longitudinal study conducted to determine th…
Connections Between Graphical Gaussian Models and Factor Analysis
Connections between graphical Gaussian models and classical single-factor models are obtained by parameterizing the single-factor model as a graphical Gaussian model. Models are represented by independence graphs, and associations between each manifest variable and the latent factor are measured by factor partial correlations. Power calculations for the single-factor graphical Gaussian model are facilitated by expressing the manifest partial corr…
Measuring Birth Weight in Developing Countries
The Life Course
Stephen Hunt Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 228 pp., ISBN 9781403914705, $61.00 (paperback) The notion of the life course has been resurrected in the social and health sciences to make sense o
Legitimating private interests
National Competition Policy (NCP), legislated in Australia in 1995, has arguably been the single most consequential economic policy over the past decade. Yet it has largely escaped sociological analysis. This article investigates how the concept of the public interest in NCP has actually had the effect of legitimizing neo-liberal ideologies concerning private, individual, economic interests. Using critical policy analysis, this article examines h…
Markov chain Monte Carlo exact inference for social networks
Meaningful Regression and Association Models for Clustered Ordinal Data
Many proposed methods for analyzing clustered ordinal data focus on the regression model and consider the association structure within a cluster as a nuisance. However, the association structure is often of equal interest—for example, temporal association in longitudinal studies and association between responses to similar questions in a survey. We discuss the use, appropriateness, and interpretability of various latent variable and Markov models…
Neo‐liberalism and the pathologising of public issues
Using domestic violence support services as a case study, this paper examines how the ascendancy of neo‐liberalism has individualised and pathologised public issues. Four perspectives are identified that have been influential in understanding the causes of domestic violence, determining responses to it and measuring the effectiveness of support services. These four perspectives may be categorised as: (i) victim‐blaming; (ii) social movement; (iii…
The Effect of Measurement Error on Event History Analysis
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Event History Analysis Two Applications of Event History Analysis to Survey Data Errors in Measurement of Event Histories Measurement Error and Event History Analysis Numerical Illustration Discussion and Conclusions
Power, status and marginalisation
The present paper examines how evidence‐based practice (EBP) is impacting on the professional status of social workers working in multidisciplinary health teams in rural Victoria. Questionnaires and interviews were used to investigate the use and perceived appropriateness of EBP and the implications for the professional status of social workers. The results indicated that social workers have the lowest levels of knowledge and application of EBP. …
The Impact of Rural–urban Migration on Under-Two Mortality in India
This paper examines the impact of rural–urban migration on under-two mortality in India, using data from the 1992/93 Indian National Family Health Survey. Multilevel logistic models are fitted for mortality in three age groups: neonatal, early post-neonatal, and late post-neonatal and toddler. Migration status was not a significant determinant of mortality in any of the three age groups. Further analysis shows that a relationship between migratio…
Contestability and social justice
This paper critically analyses competitive tendering as a model for the provision of welfare services. Competitive tendering, driven by National Competition Policy and other imperatives for greater efficiency and a smaller public sector, is now used extensively by governments to fund welfare services. However, the suitability of this funding model to welfare services generally, and specifically welfare services in non-metropolitan areas, can be c…
Birth interval and family effects on postneonatal mortality in Brazil
In this paper random-effects logistic models are used to analyze the effects of the preceding birth interval on postneonatal mortality in Brazil, controlling for the correlation of survival outcomes between siblings. The results are compared to those obtained by using ordinary logistic regression. Family effects are found to be highly significant in the random-effects model, but the substantive conclusions of the ordinary logistic model are prese…
Birth spacing and infant mortality in Brazil
The effects of birth spacing on neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in Brazil were found to be very consistent with models based on data from other South American countries. The model for neonatal mortality simplified to three significant variables, whereas the model for post-neonatal mortality included four significant interactions.
Proportional hazards models for current status data
Perspectives on Negotiations
Socio-economic Factors in Infant and Child Mortality
Using results from the World Fertility Survey (WFS) for 28 countries, socioeconomic differences in neonatal, postneonatal, and child mortality were examined. To maintain some degree of comparability and to make presentation of the results feasible, focus was on 5 variables which are available for each survey. It can be argued that each of the 5 socioeconomic variables considered here--mother's education, mother's work status since marriage, curre…
Demographic Determinants of Infant and Early Child Mortality
In this paper we examine the relative importance of a number of demographic determinants of infant and early child mortality using information from 39 World Fertility Survey countries. We include sex of the child, age of the mother at the time of the birth, birth order, mother's educational level and a number of indicators of spacing of adjacent births among the correlates of chances of survival for children below the age of five years. Mortality…
Socio-economic factors in Infant and child mortality
In this paper five socio-economic correlates of infant and child mortality are considered using results from World Fertility Survey enquiries in 28 developing countries. We consider differences in mortality for segments of life during the first five years on each of the following variables: mother's education, mother's work status, husband's occupation, husband's education and type of place of residence. A simple tabular analysis is followed by a…
Child-Spacing Effects on Infant and Early Child Mortality
For at least 60 years the deleterious effects of rapid childbearing on infant and early child survival chances have been the subject of study. The analyses of child spacing effects on infant and early childhood mortality presented here are based upon data from 26 developing countries which participated in the World Fertility Survey (WFS). All WFS data sets include a complete live birth history including the date of birth of all children born aliv…
The United Nations convention against the taking of hostages
This article briefly outlines the four‐year negotiating process from early 1976 to late 1979, which it was necessary to follow before agreement could be reached and the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by consensus, an international treaty designed to make the act of hostage‐taking a universal crime. The treaty requires that a ratifying state prosecute an international hostage‐taker found within its borders or hand over the hostage‐taker …
Demographic Determinants of Infant and Early Child Mortality
In this paper we examine the relative importance of a number of demographic determinants of infant and early child mortality using information from 39 World Fertility Survey countries. We include sex of the child, age of the mother at the time of the birth, birth order, mother's educational level and a number of indicators of spacing of adjacent births among the correlates of chances of survival for children below the age of five years. Mortality…
Birth interval and family effects on postneonatal mortality in Brazil
In this paper random-effects logistic models are used to analyze the effects of the preceding birth interval on postneonatal mortality in Brazil, controlling for the correlation of survival outcomes between siblings. The results are compared to those obtained by using ordinary logistic regression. Family effects are found to be highly significant in the random-effects model, but the substantive conclusions of the ordinary logistic model are prese…
Socio-economic factors in Infant and child mortality
In this paper five socio-economic correlates of infant and child mortality are considered using results from World Fertility Survey enquiries in 28 developing countries. We consider differences in mortality for segments of life during the first five years on each of the following variables: mother's education, mother's work status, husband's occupation, husband's education and type of place of residence. A simple tabular analysis is followed by a…
Neo‐liberalism and the pathologising of public issues
Using domestic violence support services as a case study, this paper examines how the ascendancy of neo‐liberalism has individualised and pathologised public issues. Four perspectives are identified that have been influential in understanding the causes of domestic violence, determining responses to it and measuring the effectiveness of support services. These four perspectives may be categorised as: (i) victim‐blaming; (ii) social movement; (iii…
Power, status and marginalisation
The present paper examines how evidence‐based practice (EBP) is impacting on the professional status of social workers working in multidisciplinary health teams in rural Victoria. Questionnaires and interviews were used to investigate the use and perceived appropriateness of EBP and the implications for the professional status of social workers. The results indicated that social workers have the lowest levels of knowledge and application of EBP. …
Proportional hazards models for current status data
The Life Course
Stephen Hunt Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 228 pp., ISBN 9781403914705, $61.00 (paperback) The notion of the life course has been resurrected in the social and health sciences to make sense o
Contestability and social justice
This paper critically analyses competitive tendering as a model for the provision of welfare services. Competitive tendering, driven by National Competition Policy and other imperatives for greater efficiency and a smaller public sector, is now used extensively by governments to fund welfare services. However, the suitability of this funding model to welfare services generally, and specifically welfare services in non-metropolitan areas, can be c…
Legitimating private interests
National Competition Policy (NCP), legislated in Australia in 1995, has arguably been the single most consequential economic policy over the past decade. Yet it has largely escaped sociological analysis. This article investigates how the concept of the public interest in NCP has actually had the effect of legitimizing neo-liberal ideologies concerning private, individual, economic interests. Using critical policy analysis, this article examines h…
Perspectives on Negotiations
Child-Spacing Effects on Infant and Early Child Mortality
For at least 60 years the deleterious effects of rapid childbearing on infant and early child survival chances have been the subject of study. The analyses of child spacing effects on infant and early childhood mortality presented here are based upon data from 26 developing countries which participated in the World Fertility Survey (WFS). All WFS data sets include a complete live birth history including the date of birth of all children born aliv…
The United Nations convention against the taking of hostages
This article briefly outlines the four‐year negotiating process from early 1976 to late 1979, which it was necessary to follow before agreement could be reached and the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by consensus, an international treaty designed to make the act of hostage‐taking a universal crime. The treaty requires that a ratifying state prosecute an international hostage‐taker found within its borders or hand over the hostage‐taker …
Socio-economic factors in Infant and child mortality
In this paper five socio-economic correlates of infant and child mortality are considered using results from World Fertility Survey enquiries in 28 developing countries. We consider differences in mortality for segments of life during the first five years on each of the following variables: mother's education, mother's work status, husband's occupation, husband's education and type of place of residence. A simple tabular analysis is followed by a…
Socio-economic Factors in Infant and Child Mortality
Using results from the World Fertility Survey (WFS) for 28 countries, socioeconomic differences in neonatal, postneonatal, and child mortality were examined. To maintain some degree of comparability and to make presentation of the results feasible, focus was on 5 variables which are available for each survey. It can be argued that each of the 5 socioeconomic variables considered here--mother's education, mother's work status since marriage, curre…
Demographic Determinants of Infant and Early Child Mortality
In this paper we examine the relative importance of a number of demographic determinants of infant and early child mortality using information from 39 World Fertility Survey countries. We include sex of the child, age of the mother at the time of the birth, birth order, mother's educational level and a number of indicators of spacing of adjacent births among the correlates of chances of survival for children below the age of five years. Mortality…
Proportional hazards models for current status data
Perspectives on Negotiations
Birth spacing and infant mortality in Brazil
The effects of birth spacing on neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in Brazil were found to be very consistent with models based on data from other South American countries. The model for neonatal mortality simplified to three significant variables, whereas the model for post-neonatal mortality included four significant interactions.
Birth interval and family effects on postneonatal mortality in Brazil
In this paper random-effects logistic models are used to analyze the effects of the preceding birth interval on postneonatal mortality in Brazil, controlling for the correlation of survival outcomes between siblings. The results are compared to those obtained by using ordinary logistic regression. Family effects are found to be highly significant in the random-effects model, but the substantive conclusions of the ordinary logistic model are prese…
Contestability and social justice
This paper critically analyses competitive tendering as a model for the provision of welfare services. Competitive tendering, driven by National Competition Policy and other imperatives for greater efficiency and a smaller public sector, is now used extensively by governments to fund welfare services. However, the suitability of this funding model to welfare services generally, and specifically welfare services in non-metropolitan areas, can be c…
The Impact of Rural–urban Migration on Under-Two Mortality in India
This paper examines the impact of rural–urban migration on under-two mortality in India, using data from the 1992/93 Indian National Family Health Survey. Multilevel logistic models are fitted for mortality in three age groups: neonatal, early post-neonatal, and late post-neonatal and toddler. Migration status was not a significant determinant of mortality in any of the three age groups. Further analysis shows that a relationship between migratio…
The Effect of Measurement Error on Event History Analysis
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Event History Analysis Two Applications of Event History Analysis to Survey Data Errors in Measurement of Event Histories Measurement Error and Event History Analysis Numerical Illustration Discussion and Conclusions
Power, status and marginalisation
The present paper examines how evidence‐based practice (EBP) is impacting on the professional status of social workers working in multidisciplinary health teams in rural Victoria. Questionnaires and interviews were used to investigate the use and perceived appropriateness of EBP and the implications for the professional status of social workers. The results indicated that social workers have the lowest levels of knowledge and application of EBP. …
Neo‐liberalism and the pathologising of public issues
Using domestic violence support services as a case study, this paper examines how the ascendancy of neo‐liberalism has individualised and pathologised public issues. Four perspectives are identified that have been influential in understanding the causes of domestic violence, determining responses to it and measuring the effectiveness of support services. These four perspectives may be categorised as: (i) victim‐blaming; (ii) social movement; (iii…
Markov chain Monte Carlo exact inference for social networks
Meaningful Regression and Association Models for Clustered Ordinal Data
Many proposed methods for analyzing clustered ordinal data focus on the regression model and consider the association structure within a cluster as a nuisance. However, the association structure is often of equal interest—for example, temporal association in longitudinal studies and association between responses to similar questions in a survey. We discuss the use, appropriateness, and interpretability of various latent variable and Markov models…
Legitimating private interests
National Competition Policy (NCP), legislated in Australia in 1995, has arguably been the single most consequential economic policy over the past decade. Yet it has largely escaped sociological analysis. This article investigates how the concept of the public interest in NCP has actually had the effect of legitimizing neo-liberal ideologies concerning private, individual, economic interests. Using critical policy analysis, this article examines h…
The Life Course
Stephen Hunt Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 228 pp., ISBN 9781403914705, $61.00 (paperback) The notion of the life course has been resurrected in the social and health sciences to make sense o
Connections Between Graphical Gaussian Models and Factor Analysis
Connections between graphical Gaussian models and classical single-factor models are obtained by parameterizing the single-factor model as a graphical Gaussian model. Models are represented by independence graphs, and associations between each manifest variable and the latent factor are measured by factor partial correlations. Power calculations for the single-factor graphical Gaussian model are facilitated by expressing the manifest partial corr…
Measuring Birth Weight in Developing Countries
Age and Fertility
Postponing the start of childbearing raises the question of fertility postponed versus fertility foregone. One of the limitations of previous studies of ‘How late can you wait?’ is that any observed decline in the probability of conception with age could be due to a decline in fecundability with age or due to a decline in coital frequency with age or due to both factors. Using data from a multinational longitudinal study conducted to determine th…
Medicine (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Demography (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Economics (6 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (6 works) · Infant mortality (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)