International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages Dimensions and Sources (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 409-418
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Mauricio Avendano is assistant professor at the Erasmus University Medical Center and research fellow at the Center for Population and Development studies at Harvard University. His current research focuses on the role of national institutions and policies in shaping the pathways and magnitude of the socioeconomic status (SES)
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Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology and Population and International Health within the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a social epidemiologist whose work is oriented toward understanding social inequalities in health and aging related to socioeconomic status, labor policy, and social networks and social isolation.
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Kaare Christensen is a professor of epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, and a senior research scientist at the Terry Sanford Institute, Duke University, North Carolina. Christensen is the director of the Danish Twin Registry and the Danish Aging Research Centre, and he has conducted a long series of studies among twins and the oldest-old in order to shed light on the importance of genes and environment in aging and longevity.
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She has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, served on the Institute of Medicine's Board on Global Health, the National Research Council's Committee on National Statistics, and the Population Research Subcommittee of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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He has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health since 1992. Kawachi has published widely on the relationship between stress and cardiovascular disease, as well as the broader social and economic determinants of population health.
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She currently works as a graduate assistant for the Peter Lamy Center for Drug Therapy and Aging, where she works with data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, and for the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, where she works on a study related to caregivers of hip fracture patients. Johan P
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He also examines the contribution of these smoking patterns to recent changes in the sex differential in mortality, widening of socioeconomic status disparities in health and mortality, and diverging patterns of mortality across developed and developing countries. Samuel H
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Andrew Steptoe is British Heart Foundation professor of psychology at University College London (UCL)
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Jacques Vallin is emeritus research director at the Institut National d'Études Démographiques. His research interests include health transition, inequalities in death, causes of death, life expectancy and life span, population and development, consequences of global population growth, and population of the Maghreb.
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studying patients' psychological reactions and adaptation following acute cardiac events, with a particular focus on the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Her current work involves working on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, investigating adaptation to chronic physical illness.
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