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SOCIOLOGY 523
PROSEMINAR IN DEMOGRAPHY AND HEALTH


Spring 2007

Julie Phillips

Office Hours: Mondays, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm or by appointment
Office: Room 203, IHHCPAR, 30 College Avenue / A356, Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
Telephone: (732)445-7032 or 932-1824 
E-mail Address: jphillips@sociology.rutgers.edu

Web Page URL: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~japhill/soc523.html

Syllabus

 

Handouts

 

 

Austin Bradford Hill, “The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 58 (1965), 295-300.

 

Faulkner, D and R Merritt. 1998. “Race and Cigarette Smoking among United States Adolescents: The Role of Lifestyle Behaviors and Demographic Factors.” Pediatrics 101(2)

 

Doll, Richard et al. 1994. “Mortality in relation to smoking: 40 years’ observations on male British doctors.” British Medical Journal 309: 901-911.

 

Hegmann, Kurt T, Alison M. Fraser, Robert P. Keaney, Susan E. Moser, David S. Nilasena, Micheline Sedlars, Lisa Higham-Gren, and Joseph L. Lyon. 1993. “The Effect of Age at Smoking Initiation on Lung Cancer Risk.” Epidemiology 4(5): 444-448.

 

Secker-Walker, Roger H et al. 2000. “Helping women quit smoking: Results of a community intervention program.” American Journal of Public Health 90(6): 940-946.

 

Secker-Walker erratum

 

The New York Times: Science Times

 

How Two Studies on Cancer Screening Led to Two Results

 

Many Diagnoses of Depression May Be Misguided, Study Says