Mark Vanlandingham
Biographic Data
| ID | 333456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Vanlandingham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Vanlandingham |
| SIGNATURE | VANLANDINGHAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 268 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Rapidly developing communications materials during public health emergencies: The Âu Cơ campaign in the USA
During public health emergencies, health communication materials to contain the outbreak are needed promptly, which prevents the use of standard approaches for getting feedback from the intended audience. We propose a strategy for rapidly obtaining community feedback on new health communication materials during the public health emergencies. We illustrate this with COVID-19 testing campaign in a Vietnamese–American enclave in the USA. The project…
Building Bridges and Mending Fences: Cultural Conflict and Cultural Brokering between Academic and Immigrant Communities
Our objective is to illustrate how to create and maintain a healthy flow of carefully curated communication between a research team and a community of interest using the principles of cultural brokering. We begin with a brief critical review of the existing literature on cultural brokering between immigrant and academic communities. We follow this review with a case study of cultural brokering between a research team at Tulane University and the …
The impact of early social support on subsequent health recovery after a major disaster: A longitudinal analysis
Social support may facilitate disaster recovery. Prior analyses are hampered by the limits of cross-sectional approaches. We use longitudinal data from the KATIVA-NOLA survey to explore whether social support soon after Hurricane Katrina facilitated recovery of health status for a representative sample of 82 Vietnamese New Orleanians. Health and social support were assessed just before Hurricane Katrina (2005), soon afterwards (2006, 2007), and a…
Resilience within Communities of Forced Migrants: Updates and the Path Forward
We explore the current state of the principal literature relevant to resilience and vulnerability within and among communities of forced migrants. We highlight strengths, gaps, and weaknesses in these literatures, utilizing a case study to illustrate the importance of what we deem to be essential omitted variables. We make recommendations for moving these literatures—and their associated underlying conceptual frameworks—forward
Trajectories of Post-Disaster Recovery in Healthcare Access for a Major Refugee Enclave: Vietnamese Americans in Post-Katrina New Orleans
How disasters affect health care within refugee communities is not well understood. To assess how Hurricane Katrina affected healthcare utilization among Vietnamese New Orleanians we employ a representative survey that took place just before Hurricane Katrina; and at several subsequent rounds near the 1-year, 2-year, and 5-year anniversaries of this event. To assess how acculturation affected healthcare utilization during this period we use rando…
Health Selection, Migration, and HIV Infection in Malawi
Despite its importance in studies of migrant health, selectivity of migrants—also known as migration health selection—has seldom been examined in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This neglect is problematic because several features of the context in which migration occurs in SSA—very high levels of HIV, in particular—differ from contextual features in regions that have been studied more thoroughly. To address this important gap, we use longitudinal pane…
Scp>HIV / Aids and Population
As we enter the fourth decade of the global human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, the dramatic demographic impacts seen in the first 30 years are finally moderating in those countries where treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is widespread and effectively implemented. Antiretroviral therapy was not introduced on a wide scale in sub‐Saharan Africa until 2004. And it took a decade of scaling up and improvement for treatme…
Migration and Health
Demographers and other social scientists have investigated a wide range of impacts that migration has upon sending and receiving communities, families, and the migrants themselves, but there has been little systematic investigation of migration's impacts on health. In this entry we explore the potential pathways through which migration can affect health outcomes; discuss four major dimensions of health for which migration's impacts have been inve…
Rural-to-Urban Migration and Changes in Health Among Young Adults in Thailand
We investigate the impacts of rural-to-urban migration on the health of young adult migrants. A key methodological challenge involves the potentially confounding effects of selection on the relationship between migration and health. Our study addresses this challenge in two ways. To control for potential effects of prior health status on post-migration health outcomes, we employ a longitudinal approach. To control for static unobserved characteri…
Rural-to-Urban Migration and Sexual Debut in Thailand
Migration from one’s parents’ home and sexual debut are common features of the transition to adulthood. Although many studies have described both of these features independently, few have examined the relationship between migration and sexual debut in a systematic manner. In this study, we explore this link for young adults in Thailand. With relatively high rates of internal migration, rapid modernization, a moderate HIV epidemic, and a declining…
Disentangling the Effects of Migration, Selection and Acculturation on Weight and Body Fat Distribution: Results from a Natural Experiment Involving Vietnamese Americans, Returnees, and Never-Leavers
Mental Health Consequences of International Migration for Vietnamese Americans and the Mediating Effects of Physical Health and Social Networks: Results From a Natural Experiment Approach
Although the existing literature on immigrant mental health is extensive, major substantive and methodological gaps remain. Substantively, there is little population-based research that focuses on the mental health consequences of migration for Vietnamese Americans. More generally, although a wide range of mental health problems among immigrants has been identified, the potential causal or mediating mechanisms underlying these problems remain elu…
Physical and Mental Health Consequences of Katrina on Vietnamese Immigrants in New Orleans: A Pre- and Post-Disaster Assessment
Mental and Physical Health Consequences of Repatriation for Vietnamese Returnees: A Natural Experiment Approach
Race, socioeconomic status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Evacuation and Return of Vietnamese New Orleanians Affected by Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans East—where the main Vietnamese enclave is located— especially hard. By chance, shortly before this disaster, sociodemographic and health data had been collected for a population-based sample of working-age Vietnamese Americans living in New Orleans. One year after the storm, the authors reinterviewed nearly all respondents from the original sample who had returned to the area, which netted about two thirds of …
One Year Later: Mental Illness Prevalence and Disparities Among New Orleans Residents Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Objectives. We examined whether there were high levels of mental illness among displaced New Orleans, LA, residents in the fall of 2006, 1 year after Hurricane Katrina. Methods. We used data from the Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study, which measured the prevalence of probable mild or moderate and serious mental illness among a representative sample of people who resided in New Orleans at the time of the hurricane, including people who e…
Murder Rates in New Orleans, Louisiana
In an earlier estimation of the murder rate for New Orleans, Louisiana, for 2006, I concluded that the best population data available translated the 162 recorded homicides into a 2006 murder rate of 96.6 per 100000—a record high. An alternative measure of 72.5 per 100 000 can be calculated using the US Census Bureau’s 2006 midyear population estimate of 223 388 for the city.2 This US Census Bureau population estimate for midyear 2006 is much high…
HIV/Aids and population
The connections between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and population features are vast. While HIV has its largest impacts on population size and structure by increasing mortality among young adults, it also affects and interacts with the other key components of population makeup and change, namely, sexual behavior and fertility, and migration. Impacts on these key components in turn affect the well‐being of populations in profound ways
Sex and the Single (Older) Guy: Sexual Lives of Older Unmarried Thai Men During the Aids Era
Murder Rates in New Orleans, La, 2004–2006
Murder rates for New Orleans, La, during 2005 and 2006 were calculated with the best available population trajectories for these 2 atypical years. These calculations showed that the murder rate increased substantially during this period compared with 2004. The increase in 2005 from 2004 was 14%. The best estimate of the increase in the murder rate in 2006 compared with 2004 was 69%; the large increase in 2006 began during the second quarter of th…
Access to treatment and care associated with HIV infection among members of Aids support groups in Thailand
To examine the types and distributions of treatment received among persons living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHAs) in Thailand, we analyzed data collected during 2000 from 412 members of PLWHA support organizations in Bangkok and three upcountry northern provinces. Most (74%) of the respondents report ever receiving modern medical care for their HIV-related symptoms; 31% report ever using herbal treatments. Small proportions of those experiencing sever…
Community Reaction to Persons with HIV/Aids and Their Parents: An Analysis of Recent Evidence from Thailand
We systematically examine community reaction to persons living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) and their older parents in Thailand. We focus on parents as well as PHAs because parents are major providers of care for their ill adult children. Our analyses are based on several sources of recently collected survey and qualitative data from a wide range of perspectives. We find important variations in community reaction to PHAs and their families, but overall t…
Modern Babylon? Prostituting children in Thailand
Return migration in the context of parental assistance in the Aids epidemic: The Thai experience
Race, socioeconomic status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Trends and Differentials in Breastfeeding Behaviour: Evidence from the WFS and DHS
In this paper trends and correlates of breastfeeding behaviour are analysed with data from available surveys conducted in conjunction with the World Fertility Surveys (WFS) and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Both these series of fertility surveys were designed and carried out in similar fashions, and in both, similar information on breastfeeding behaviour and its correlates was collected. Therefore, these data provide the best comparat…
One Year Later: Mental Illness Prevalence and Disparities Among New Orleans Residents Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Objectives. We examined whether there were high levels of mental illness among displaced New Orleans, LA, residents in the fall of 2006, 1 year after Hurricane Katrina. Methods. We used data from the Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study, which measured the prevalence of probable mild or moderate and serious mental illness among a representative sample of people who resided in New Orleans at the time of the hurricane, including people who e…
Rural-to-Urban Migration and Changes in Health Among Young Adults in Thailand
We investigate the impacts of rural-to-urban migration on the health of young adult migrants. A key methodological challenge involves the potentially confounding effects of selection on the relationship between migration and health. Our study addresses this challenge in two ways. To control for potential effects of prior health status on post-migration health outcomes, we employ a longitudinal approach. To control for static unobserved characteri…
Older people and Aids: Quantitative evidence of the impact in Thailand
Two Views of Risky Sexual Practices Among Northern Thai Males: The Health Belief Model and the Theory of Reasoned Action
We apply the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) to an analysis of unsafe sexual practices (inconsistent condom use with commercial sex workers) among men living in a high HIV-prevalence area. The empirical analysis is based primarily on a survey of sexual practices that was conducted by the authors during the fall of 1991. The survey sample includes university undergraduates, soldiers, clerks, and laborers living in…
Return migration in the context of parental assistance in the Aids epidemic: The Thai experience
Population pressure and fertility in pre-transition Thailand
Before the demographic transition in Thailand, fertility was high, but not uniformly so. As in other pre-transition settings, Thai fertility responded to pressures and opportunities created by socioeconomic structure and land availability. Drawing upon provincial data from the 1947 and 1960 censuses of Thailand, we find a strong 'frontier effect' on Thai fertility in the 1950s. Fertility was higher in sparsely settled frontier provinces and lower…
Birthweight-specific infant mortality for native Americans compared with whites, six states, 1980
We used data from the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project to compare birthweights and birthweight-specific mortality risks among Native American and White infants. Because race categories in NIMS were limited to White, Black, and all, we studied six states in which greater than 85 per cent of newborns who were neither White nor Black were Native American. In these states, the infant mortality risk (IMR) among Native Americans wa…
In the company of friends: Peer influence on Thai male extramarital sex
Sexual activity among never-married men in northern Thailand
We use data collected in 1991 to investigate sexual activity among never-married men in Thailand, with a focus on age at first intercourse, characteristics of sexual partners, and conditions under which men visit prostitutes. We sampled men from a broad spectrum of northern Thai society, including university undergraduates, soldiers, and semiskilled/unskilled workers. We found that except for the students, the majority of each subsample is sexual…
Community Reaction to Persons with HIV/Aids and Their Parents: An Analysis of Recent Evidence from Thailand
We systematically examine community reaction to persons living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) and their older parents in Thailand. We focus on parents as well as PHAs because parents are major providers of care for their ill adult children. Our analyses are based on several sources of recently collected survey and qualitative data from a wide range of perspectives. We find important variations in community reaction to PHAs and their families, but overall t…
The Impacts of HIV/Aids on Older Populations in Developing Countries: Some Observations Based on the Thai Case
The authors describe features of the older population and the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand and discuss potential links between them. Both direct and indirect impacts of AIDS on the Thai older population are discussed, but the focus is on how older persons could be indirectly affected by AIDS infections occurring among their adult children. Five major mechanisms are identified through which these indirect effects can occur: finance…
Health Selection, Migration, and HIV Infection in Malawi
Despite its importance in studies of migrant health, selectivity of migrants—also known as migration health selection—has seldom been examined in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This neglect is problematic because several features of the context in which migration occurs in SSA—very high levels of HIV, in particular—differ from contextual features in regions that have been studied more thoroughly. To address this important gap, we use longitudinal pane…
Murder Rates in New Orleans, La, 2004–2006
Murder rates for New Orleans, La, during 2005 and 2006 were calculated with the best available population trajectories for these 2 atypical years. These calculations showed that the murder rate increased substantially during this period compared with 2004. The increase in 2005 from 2004 was 14%. The best estimate of the increase in the murder rate in 2006 compared with 2004 was 69%; the large increase in 2006 began during the second quarter of th…
Aids and the elderly of thailand: Projecting familial impacts
We apply aggregate demographic analysis and computer microsimulation to project the number of older Thais who will lose children to AIDS during their own lifetimes and to assess their involvement with ill children through caregiving and coresidence. Parental bereavements from AIDS are predicted to peak at around 80,000 per year between 2003 and 2007. Despite an HIV prevalence of only 2%, 13% of Thais who were over age 50 as of 1995 are likely to …
Mental Health Consequences of International Migration for Vietnamese Americans and the Mediating Effects of Physical Health and Social Networks: Results From a Natural Experiment Approach
Although the existing literature on immigrant mental health is extensive, major substantive and methodological gaps remain. Substantively, there is little population-based research that focuses on the mental health consequences of migration for Vietnamese Americans. More generally, although a wide range of mental health problems among immigrants has been identified, the potential causal or mediating mechanisms underlying these problems remain elu…
Dimensions of Aids Knowledge and Risky Sexual Practices: A Study of Northern Thai Males
Resilience within Communities of Forced Migrants: Updates and the Path Forward
We explore the current state of the principal literature relevant to resilience and vulnerability within and among communities of forced migrants. We highlight strengths, gaps, and weaknesses in these literatures, utilizing a case study to illustrate the importance of what we deem to be essential omitted variables. We make recommendations for moving these literatures—and their associated underlying conceptual frameworks—forward
Mental and Physical Health Consequences of Repatriation for Vietnamese Returnees: A Natural Experiment Approach
Rural-to-Urban Migration and Sexual Debut in Thailand
Migration from one’s parents’ home and sexual debut are common features of the transition to adulthood. Although many studies have described both of these features independently, few have examined the relationship between migration and sexual debut in a systematic manner. In this study, we explore this link for young adults in Thailand. With relatively high rates of internal migration, rapid modernization, a moderate HIV epidemic, and a declining…
Murder Rates in New Orleans, Louisiana
In an earlier estimation of the murder rate for New Orleans, Louisiana, for 2006, I concluded that the best population data available translated the 162 recorded homicides into a 2006 murder rate of 96.6 per 100000—a record high. An alternative measure of 72.5 per 100 000 can be calculated using the US Census Bureau’s 2006 midyear population estimate of 223 388 for the city.2 This US Census Bureau population estimate for midyear 2006 is much high…
Birthweight-specific infant mortality risks for native Americans and whites, United States, 1960 and 1984
We used NCHS natality and linked-birth/death certificate tapes to compare birthweight-specific neonatal and postneonatal mortality risks for Native Americans and whites in 1960 and in 1984. The birthweight distributions for the two groups were similar both years. Native American neonatal mortality risk dropped from 20.2 in 1960 to 5.2 in 1984, and the relative risk for Native Americans with respect to whites fell from 1.31 in 1960 to a nonsignifi…
Birthweight-specific infant mortality for native Americans compared with whites, six states, 1980
We used data from the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project to compare birthweights and birthweight-specific mortality risks among Native American and White infants. Because race categories in NIMS were limited to White, Black, and all, we studied six states in which greater than 85 per cent of newborns who were neither White nor Black were Native American. In these states, the infant mortality risk (IMR) among Native Americans wa…
Trends and Differentials in Breastfeeding Behaviour: Evidence from the WFS and DHS
In this paper trends and correlates of breastfeeding behaviour are analysed with data from available surveys conducted in conjunction with the World Fertility Surveys (WFS) and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Both these series of fertility surveys were designed and carried out in similar fashions, and in both, similar information on breastfeeding behaviour and its correlates was collected. Therefore, these data provide the best comparat…
Sexual activity among never-married men in northern Thailand
We use data collected in 1991 to investigate sexual activity among never-married men in Thailand, with a focus on age at first intercourse, characteristics of sexual partners, and conditions under which men visit prostitutes. We sampled men from a broad spectrum of northern Thai society, including university undergraduates, soldiers, and semiskilled/unskilled workers. We found that except for the students, the majority of each subsample is sexual…
Breastfeeding and waiting time to conception for Malay women: A tale of two surveys
This study investigates the unusual relationship between breastfeeding and waiting time to conception in Malaysia as reported in Goldman et al. (1987). Using data from the Malaysian World Fertility Survey (MWFS), Goldman and her colleagues (1987) find that noncontracepting Malaysian women have an unusually long waiting time to conception, given their relatively short durations of breastfeeding. This study provides a similar analysis using data fr…
Birthweight-specific infant mortality risks for native Americans and whites, United States, 1960 and 1984
We used NCHS natality and linked-birth/death certificate tapes to compare birthweight-specific neonatal and postneonatal mortality risks for Native Americans and whites in 1960 and in 1984. The birthweight distributions for the two groups were similar both years. Native American neonatal mortality risk dropped from 20.2 in 1960 to 5.2 in 1984, and the relative risk for Native Americans with respect to whites fell from 1.31 in 1960 to a nonsignifi…
Two Views of Risky Sexual Practices Among Northern Thai Males: The Health Belief Model and the Theory of Reasoned Action
We apply the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) to an analysis of unsafe sexual practices (inconsistent condom use with commercial sex workers) among men living in a high HIV-prevalence area. The empirical analysis is based primarily on a survey of sexual practices that was conducted by the authors during the fall of 1991. The survey sample includes university undergraduates, soldiers, clerks, and laborers living in…
Some Cultural Underpinnings of Male Sexual Behaviour Patterns in Thailand
Many observers of Thai society have been puzzled by the persistence of unsafe sexual practices in the presence of a widening HIV epidemic.1 Recent surveys indicate that most young Thai men have visited prostitutes, and many do so with out the protection of condoms (Nopkesorn et al.,1991; Sittitrai et al.,1991; VanLandingham, 1993). The government and various nongovernmental organ izations have invested heavily in educating people about the danger…
Dimensions of Aids Knowledge and Risky Sexual Practices: A Study of Northern Thai Males
In the company of friends: Peer influence on Thai male extramarital sex
The Impacts of HIV/Aids on Older Populations in Developing Countries: Some Observations Based on the Thai Case
The authors describe features of the older population and the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand and discuss potential links between them. Both direct and indirect impacts of AIDS on the Thai older population are discussed, but the focus is on how older persons could be indirectly affected by AIDS infections occurring among their adult children. Five major mechanisms are identified through which these indirect effects can occur: finance…
Adherence to Travel Health Guidelines: The Experience of Nigerian Immigrants in Houston, Texas
Older people and Aids: Quantitative evidence of the impact in Thailand
Population pressure and fertility in pre-transition Thailand
Before the demographic transition in Thailand, fertility was high, but not uniformly so. As in other pre-transition settings, Thai fertility responded to pressures and opportunities created by socioeconomic structure and land availability. Drawing upon provincial data from the 1947 and 1960 censuses of Thailand, we find a strong 'frontier effect' on Thai fertility in the 1950s. Fertility was higher in sparsely settled frontier provinces and lower…
Aids and the Elderly of Thailand: Projecting Familial Impacts
We apply aggregate demographic analysis and computer microsimulation to project the number of older Thais who will lose children to AIDS during their own lifetimes and to assess their involvement with ill children through caregiving and coresidence. Parental bereavements from AIDS are predicted to peak at around 80,000 per year between 2003 and 2007. Despite an HIV prevalence of only 2%, 13% of Thais who were over age 50 as of 1995 are likely to …
Aids and the elderly of thailand: Projecting familial impacts
We apply aggregate demographic analysis and computer microsimulation to project the number of older Thais who will lose children to AIDS during their own lifetimes and to assess their involvement with ill children through caregiving and coresidence. Parental bereavements from AIDS are predicted to peak at around 80,000 per year between 2003 and 2007. Despite an HIV prevalence of only 2%, 13% of Thais who were over age 50 as of 1995 are likely to …
Return migration in the context of parental assistance in the Aids epidemic: The Thai experience
Endangered relations: Negotiating sex and Aids in Thailand
Modern Babylon? Prostituting children in Thailand
Community Reaction to Persons with HIV/Aids and Their Parents: An Analysis of Recent Evidence from Thailand
We systematically examine community reaction to persons living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) and their older parents in Thailand. We focus on parents as well as PHAs because parents are major providers of care for their ill adult children. Our analyses are based on several sources of recently collected survey and qualitative data from a wide range of perspectives. We find important variations in community reaction to PHAs and their families, but overall t…
Access to treatment and care associated with HIV infection among members of Aids support groups in Thailand
To examine the types and distributions of treatment received among persons living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHAs) in Thailand, we analyzed data collected during 2000 from 412 members of PLWHA support organizations in Bangkok and three upcountry northern provinces. Most (74%) of the respondents report ever receiving modern medical care for their HIV-related symptoms; 31% report ever using herbal treatments. Small proportions of those experiencing sever…
Sex and the Single (Older) Guy: Sexual Lives of Older Unmarried Thai Men During the Aids Era
Murder Rates in New Orleans, La, 2004–2006
Murder rates for New Orleans, La, during 2005 and 2006 were calculated with the best available population trajectories for these 2 atypical years. These calculations showed that the murder rate increased substantially during this period compared with 2004. The increase in 2005 from 2004 was 14%. The best estimate of the increase in the murder rate in 2006 compared with 2004 was 69%; the large increase in 2006 began during the second quarter of th…
Murder Rates in New Orleans, Louisiana
In an earlier estimation of the murder rate for New Orleans, Louisiana, for 2006, I concluded that the best population data available translated the 162 recorded homicides into a 2006 murder rate of 96.6 per 100000—a record high. An alternative measure of 72.5 per 100 000 can be calculated using the US Census Bureau’s 2006 midyear population estimate of 223 388 for the city.2 This US Census Bureau population estimate for midyear 2006 is much high…
HIV/Aids and population
The connections between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and population features are vast. While HIV has its largest impacts on population size and structure by increasing mortality among young adults, it also affects and interacts with the other key components of population makeup and change, namely, sexual behavior and fertility, and migration. Impacts on these key components in turn affect the well‐being of populations in profound ways
Evacuation and Return of Vietnamese New Orleanians Affected by Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans East—where the main Vietnamese enclave is located— especially hard. By chance, shortly before this disaster, sociodemographic and health data had been collected for a population-based sample of working-age Vietnamese Americans living in New Orleans. One year after the storm, the authors reinterviewed nearly all respondents from the original sample who had returned to the area, which netted about two thirds of …
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