THE WEATHERING HYPOTHESIS

Weathering Hypothesis among Mexican-origin Women

Methods: 1989–1991 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) linked birth-death files. These files include all women who experienced a live birth in the United States and whose infants were issued a birth certificate during the years 1989 to 1991 (NCHS 1995). Age and nativity specific distributions on infant mortality, low birth weight, anemia, pregnancy related hypertension, and smoking wer...

Maternal Health Status and Early Childbearing: A Test of the Weathering Hypothesis

The weathering hypothesis states that teen childbearing among African American women is rationalized given greater early exposure to poor physical health and shortened life spans that result from the physical consequences of social inequality in African American communities (i.e., “weathering”). This paper tests a simple yet unexplored test of the basic assumption of the weathering hypothesis: ...

Weathering the influenza vaccine crisis.

DRAFT: PLEASE DO CITE OR REPRODUCE WITHOUT PERMISSION Maternal Health Status and Early Childbearing: A Test of the Weathering Hypothesis

The weathering hypothesis suggests that early childbearing is an adaptive mechanism for disadvantaged young women, especially African Americans, who believe that their health status may decline as they move through adulthood. Implicitly, weathering assumes that these young women use contextual clues to formulate the likelihood of their own future adult health. We propose a simple yet, to date, ...

Sunlight , UV , & Accelerated Weathering

Sunlight is an important cause of damage to plastics, textiles, paints, and other organic materials. Short wavelength ultraviolet light has long been recognized as being responsible for most of this damage2. Spectroradiometric measurements were made to quantify the wide variations in UV content of sunlight under the following conditions: direct summer sunlight, winter sunlight, sunlight filtere...