Michael Bracher
Biographic Data
| ID | 275439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Bracher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Bracher |
| SIGNATURE | BRACHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5861-2657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The process of incorporating insulin pumps into the everyday lives of people with Type 1 diabetes
Investigating Autism
A History of Autism
followed from a social contract between citizens and government.Thus, it did not extend beyond national borders.A well-known economist, Angus Deaton -who has written extensively about health in poor countries -surprisingly takes a similar view: international health inequalities cannot be seen as unjust.Venkatapuram strongly disagrees and develops a comprehensive argument for health inequalities as a matter of global concern.If global resources ar…
Assessing the Potential of Condom Use to Prevent the Spread of HIV
In this study, a microsimulation model is used to assess the potential impact of condom use on women's lifetime risk of acquiring HIV in rural southern Malawi. The model draws on survey data for information on sexual activity, marriage and divorce, and on the biomedical literature for input parameters governing the transmission and spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). We show that lifetime risk could be as high as 42 perc…
Moving' and Marrying
We use a microsimulation model to estimate the proportions of rural Malawian brides and grooms who are already HIV positive when they marry. The model, a demographic model of reproduction and mortality overlaid with a model of disease transmission, in
Explaining Trends in Teenage Childbearing in Sweden
The teenage fertility rate fell precipitately in Sweden after 1966 and is now one of the lowest in Europe. This decline can be seen in the context of major reforms enacted in 1975 whereby the school sex‐education curriculum was revised, contraceptive services were improved, and abortion was provided free and on demand. By means of microsimulation, the possible roles of contraception and induced abortion in causing teenage fertility to fall are ex…
Economic Independence and Union Formation in Sweden
Although sociologists, demographers, and economists are generally agreed that economic independence enhances the likelihood that men will marry, there is disagreement concerning its effect on women. The view that economic independence weakens women's incentive to marry has probably been the most influential, although it has been subjected to few rigorous empirical tests with individual-level data. In the present paper we examine the predictors of…
Change and Continuity in the Formation of First Marital Unions in Australia
Marriage rates have now been falling in all Western countries for more than 20 years. Rising levels of women's education and employment, extra-marital cohabitation, and separation and divorce both preceded, and continue to accompany, this trend. We apply hazards models to a data-set rich in event-history information in order to study the links between these movements at the level of the individual in Australia. Contra the New Home Economists it t…
The Analysis of Maternity Histories
Marriage Dissolution in Australia
Interest in rising rates of marriage dissolution has been accompanied by curiosity concerning structural as well as temporal predictors of dissolution. Many factors may play a part: characteristics of the bride and groom; the circumstances surrounding the marriage, such as the length of periods of previous cohabitation; and situational factors within the marriage, such as the births of children and wives' employment. We examine the association be…
Correlates of hysterectomy in Australia
The family histories of australian women
Do gravidity and age affect pregnancy outcome
Fetal loss has generally been found to vary with gravidity, previous experience of fetal loss, and maternal age, but the literature is divided on the reasons for these associations. In this paper we examine pregnancy histories obtained retrospectively from a nationally representative one-in-one-thousand sample of women in Australia aged 20 to 59 years. The relations of fetal loss ratios with both gravidity and previous outcome are consistent with…
Child Death and Time to the Next Birth in Central Java
Data from a two-year prospective study conducted in a rural area of Central Java are used to examine determinants of child mortality and fertility and the relation between the two. Maternal age and birth order were significant determinants of child mortality. While child mortality in turn strongly influenced the timing of the next birth, there is no evidence that the death of a child affected fertility through any but a physiological mechanism. I…
Child death and time to the next birth in Central Java
Data from a two-year prospective study conducted in a rural area of Central Java are used to examine determinants of child mortality and fertility and the relation between the two. Maternal age and birth order were significant determinants of child mortality. While child mortality in turn strongly influenced the timing of the next birth, there is no evidence that the death of a child affected fertility through any but a physiological mechanism. I…
Breast-feeding in Central Java
Earlier studies have documented long periods of breast-feeding in Central Java accompanied by long periods of sexual abstinence. Information on breast-feeding collected prospectively in rural Central Java between 1976 and 1978 is analysed by proportional hazards regression techniques. Only age at confinement and education enter the final model as explanatory variables for the duration of breast-feeding. A mechanism of weaning is identified whereb…
Some methodological considerations in the analysis of current status data
Recent attention has focused on the length of the post partum period of infecundity in those societies where child-spacing has traditionally been achieved through post partum sexual abstinence or prolonged breast-feeding. The tabulation of proportions of women abstaining at interview by the age of the youngest child has been suggested as a technique free of problems of digital preference and memory lapse, while being otherwise equivalent to the d…
Family and Demography
Economic Independence and Union Formation in Sweden
Although sociologists, demographers, and economists are generally agreed that economic independence enhances the likelihood that men will marry, there is disagreement concerning its effect on women. The view that economic independence weakens women's incentive to marry has probably been the most influential, although it has been subjected to few rigorous empirical tests with individual-level data. In the present paper we examine the predictors of…
Marriage Dissolution in Australia
Interest in rising rates of marriage dissolution has been accompanied by curiosity concerning structural as well as temporal predictors of dissolution. Many factors may play a part: characteristics of the bride and groom; the circumstances surrounding the marriage, such as the length of periods of previous cohabitation; and situational factors within the marriage, such as the births of children and wives' employment. We examine the association be…
Change and Continuity in the Formation of First Marital Unions in Australia
Marriage rates have now been falling in all Western countries for more than 20 years. Rising levels of women's education and employment, extra-marital cohabitation, and separation and divorce both preceded, and continue to accompany, this trend. We apply hazards models to a data-set rich in event-history information in order to study the links between these movements at the level of the individual in Australia. Contra the New Home Economists it t…
Moving' and Marrying
We use a microsimulation model to estimate the proportions of rural Malawian brides and grooms who are already HIV positive when they marry. The model, a demographic model of reproduction and mortality overlaid with a model of disease transmission, in
Correlates of hysterectomy in Australia
Breast-feeding in Central Java
Earlier studies have documented long periods of breast-feeding in Central Java accompanied by long periods of sexual abstinence. Information on breast-feeding collected prospectively in rural Central Java between 1976 and 1978 is analysed by proportional hazards regression techniques. Only age at confinement and education enter the final model as explanatory variables for the duration of breast-feeding. A mechanism of weaning is identified whereb…
Assessing the Potential of Condom Use to Prevent the Spread of HIV
In this study, a microsimulation model is used to assess the potential impact of condom use on women's lifetime risk of acquiring HIV in rural southern Malawi. The model draws on survey data for information on sexual activity, marriage and divorce, and on the biomedical literature for input parameters governing the transmission and spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). We show that lifetime risk could be as high as 42 perc…
Explaining Trends in Teenage Childbearing in Sweden
The teenage fertility rate fell precipitately in Sweden after 1966 and is now one of the lowest in Europe. This decline can be seen in the context of major reforms enacted in 1975 whereby the school sex‐education curriculum was revised, contraceptive services were improved, and abortion was provided free and on demand. By means of microsimulation, the possible roles of contraception and induced abortion in causing teenage fertility to fall are ex…
Child death and time to the next birth in Central Java
Data from a two-year prospective study conducted in a rural area of Central Java are used to examine determinants of child mortality and fertility and the relation between the two. Maternal age and birth order were significant determinants of child mortality. While child mortality in turn strongly influenced the timing of the next birth, there is no evidence that the death of a child affected fertility through any but a physiological mechanism. I…
The family histories of australian women
Some methodological considerations in the analysis of current status data
Recent attention has focused on the length of the post partum period of infecundity in those societies where child-spacing has traditionally been achieved through post partum sexual abstinence or prolonged breast-feeding. The tabulation of proportions of women abstaining at interview by the age of the youngest child has been suggested as a technique free of problems of digital preference and memory lapse, while being otherwise equivalent to the d…
Family and Demography
Some methodological considerations in the analysis of current status data
Recent attention has focused on the length of the post partum period of infecundity in those societies where child-spacing has traditionally been achieved through post partum sexual abstinence or prolonged breast-feeding. The tabulation of proportions of women abstaining at interview by the age of the youngest child has been suggested as a technique free of problems of digital preference and memory lapse, while being otherwise equivalent to the d…
Breast-feeding in Central Java
Earlier studies have documented long periods of breast-feeding in Central Java accompanied by long periods of sexual abstinence. Information on breast-feeding collected prospectively in rural Central Java between 1976 and 1978 is analysed by proportional hazards regression techniques. Only age at confinement and education enter the final model as explanatory variables for the duration of breast-feeding. A mechanism of weaning is identified whereb…
Child death and time to the next birth in Central Java
Data from a two-year prospective study conducted in a rural area of Central Java are used to examine determinants of child mortality and fertility and the relation between the two. Maternal age and birth order were significant determinants of child mortality. While child mortality in turn strongly influenced the timing of the next birth, there is no evidence that the death of a child affected fertility through any but a physiological mechanism. I…
Child Death and Time to the Next Birth in Central Java
Data from a two-year prospective study conducted in a rural area of Central Java are used to examine determinants of child mortality and fertility and the relation between the two. Maternal age and birth order were significant determinants of child mortality. While child mortality in turn strongly influenced the timing of the next birth, there is no evidence that the death of a child affected fertility through any but a physiological mechanism. I…
Do gravidity and age affect pregnancy outcome
Fetal loss has generally been found to vary with gravidity, previous experience of fetal loss, and maternal age, but the literature is divided on the reasons for these associations. In this paper we examine pregnancy histories obtained retrospectively from a nationally representative one-in-one-thousand sample of women in Australia aged 20 to 59 years. The relations of fetal loss ratios with both gravidity and previous outcome are consistent with…
The family histories of australian women
Correlates of hysterectomy in Australia
Marriage Dissolution in Australia
Interest in rising rates of marriage dissolution has been accompanied by curiosity concerning structural as well as temporal predictors of dissolution. Many factors may play a part: characteristics of the bride and groom; the circumstances surrounding the marriage, such as the length of periods of previous cohabitation; and situational factors within the marriage, such as the births of children and wives' employment. We examine the association be…
Change and Continuity in the Formation of First Marital Unions in Australia
Marriage rates have now been falling in all Western countries for more than 20 years. Rising levels of women's education and employment, extra-marital cohabitation, and separation and divorce both preceded, and continue to accompany, this trend. We apply hazards models to a data-set rich in event-history information in order to study the links between these movements at the level of the individual in Australia. Contra the New Home Economists it t…
The Analysis of Maternity Histories
Economic Independence and Union Formation in Sweden
Although sociologists, demographers, and economists are generally agreed that economic independence enhances the likelihood that men will marry, there is disagreement concerning its effect on women. The view that economic independence weakens women's incentive to marry has probably been the most influential, although it has been subjected to few rigorous empirical tests with individual-level data. In the present paper we examine the predictors of…
Explaining Trends in Teenage Childbearing in Sweden
The teenage fertility rate fell precipitately in Sweden after 1966 and is now one of the lowest in Europe. This decline can be seen in the context of major reforms enacted in 1975 whereby the school sex‐education curriculum was revised, contraceptive services were improved, and abortion was provided free and on demand. By means of microsimulation, the possible roles of contraception and induced abortion in causing teenage fertility to fall are ex…
Moving' and Marrying
We use a microsimulation model to estimate the proportions of rural Malawian brides and grooms who are already HIV positive when they marry. The model, a demographic model of reproduction and mortality overlaid with a model of disease transmission, in
Assessing the Potential of Condom Use to Prevent the Spread of HIV
In this study, a microsimulation model is used to assess the potential impact of condom use on women's lifetime risk of acquiring HIV in rural southern Malawi. The model draws on survey data for information on sexual activity, marriage and divorce, and on the biomedical literature for input parameters governing the transmission and spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). We show that lifetime risk could be as high as 42 perc…
Investigating Autism
A History of Autism
followed from a social contract between citizens and government.Thus, it did not extend beyond national borders.A well-known economist, Angus Deaton -who has written extensively about health in poor countries -surprisingly takes a similar view: international health inequalities cannot be seen as unjust.Venkatapuram strongly disagrees and develops a comprehensive argument for health inequalities as a matter of global concern.If global resources ar…
The process of incorporating insulin pumps into the everyday lives of people with Type 1 diabetes
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