Sarah Walter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Walter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Walter |
| SIGNATURE | WALTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9548-4866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Household structure in Ghana
BACKGROUNDThe nuclear convergence hypothesis proposes that development and urbanisation lead to increasing proportions of nuclear families.We explore this hypothesis in Ghana by charting household living arrangements as captured in censuses and surveys. OBJECTIVETo classify household structure in Ghana and track trends to test whether households converge towards nucleation during processes of development and urbanisation. METHODSWe employ two met…
Evaluation of New York/New York III permanent supportive housing program
In 2005, the city and state of New York launched New York/New York III (NY/NY III), a permanent supportive housing program for individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness with complex medical and behavioral health issues. This review paper summarizes a decade of findings (2007-2017) from the NY/NY III evaluation team, to analyze this program's impact on various housing and health outcomes. The evaluation team linked NY/NY III…
Housing Subsidies and Housing Stability are Associated with Better HIV Medical Outcomes Among Persons Who Experienced Homelessness and Live with HIV and Mental Illness or Substance Use Disorder
Workers not Paid for Sick Leave after Implementation of the New York City Paid Sick Leave Law
Counting Souls
BACKGROUND: Little is known about even the relatively recent demographic history of Africa, because of the lack of data. Elsewhere, historical demographic trends have been reconstructed by applying family reconstitution to church records. Such data also exist throughout Africa from the late 19th century. For the Counting Souls Project, nearly one million records from the oldest Catholic parishes in East and Central Africa have been digitised. The…
Before HIV
Is Sibling Rivalry Fatal? Siblings and Mortality Clustering
Evidence drawn from nineteenth-century Belgian population registers shows that the presence of similarly aged siblings competing for resources within a household increases the probability of death for children younger than five, even when controlling for the preceding birth interval and multiple births. Furthermore, in this period of Belgian history, such mortality tended to cluster in certain families. The findings suggest the importance of segm…
Counting Souls
BACKGROUND: Little is known about even the relatively recent demographic history of Africa, because of the lack of data. Elsewhere, historical demographic trends have been reconstructed by applying family reconstitution to church records. Such data also exist throughout Africa from the late 19th century. For the Counting Souls Project, nearly one million records from the oldest Catholic parishes in East and Central Africa have been digitised. The…
Workers not Paid for Sick Leave after Implementation of the New York City Paid Sick Leave Law
Is Sibling Rivalry Fatal? Siblings and Mortality Clustering
Evidence drawn from nineteenth-century Belgian population registers shows that the presence of similarly aged siblings competing for resources within a household increases the probability of death for children younger than five, even when controlling for the preceding birth interval and multiple births. Furthermore, in this period of Belgian history, such mortality tended to cluster in certain families. The findings suggest the importance of segm…
Is Sibling Rivalry Fatal? Siblings and Mortality Clustering
Evidence drawn from nineteenth-century Belgian population registers shows that the presence of similarly aged siblings competing for resources within a household increases the probability of death for children younger than five, even when controlling for the preceding birth interval and multiple births. Furthermore, in this period of Belgian history, such mortality tended to cluster in certain families. The findings suggest the importance of segm…
Before HIV
Counting Souls
BACKGROUND: Little is known about even the relatively recent demographic history of Africa, because of the lack of data. Elsewhere, historical demographic trends have been reconstructed by applying family reconstitution to church records. Such data also exist throughout Africa from the late 19th century. For the Counting Souls Project, nearly one million records from the oldest Catholic parishes in East and Central Africa have been digitised. The…
Workers not Paid for Sick Leave after Implementation of the New York City Paid Sick Leave Law
Housing Subsidies and Housing Stability are Associated with Better HIV Medical Outcomes Among Persons Who Experienced Homelessness and Live with HIV and Mental Illness or Substance Use Disorder
Evaluation of New York/New York III permanent supportive housing program
In 2005, the city and state of New York launched New York/New York III (NY/NY III), a permanent supportive housing program for individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness with complex medical and behavioral health issues. This review paper summarizes a decade of findings (2007-2017) from the NY/NY III evaluation team, to analyze this program's impact on various housing and health outcomes. The evaluation team linked NY/NY III…
Household structure in Ghana
BACKGROUNDThe nuclear convergence hypothesis proposes that development and urbanisation lead to increasing proportions of nuclear families.We explore this hypothesis in Ghana by charting household living arrangements as captured in censuses and surveys. OBJECTIVETo classify household structure in Ghana and track trends to test whether households converge towards nucleation during processes of development and urbanisation. METHODSWe employ two met…
Demography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)