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Pages 176-182

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... James Banks is professor of economics at the University of Manchester and deputy research director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he also directs the Centre for Economic Research on Ageing. His research focuses on empirical modeling of individual economic behavior over the life cycle, 176
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From page 177...
... 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, social networks, support, and social isolation.
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From page 178...
... , which has greatly influenced debates about priority setting and resource allocation in health. He is an honorary fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and a foreign associate member (one of only four Australians)
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... His current research focuses on socioeconomic inequalities in health, on issues related to aging and compression of morbidity, and on the effectiveness and quality of health services. He is actively engaged in exchanges between research and policy, among others as a member of several government advisory councils in the Netherlands (the Health Council, and the Council for Public Health and Health Care)
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From page 180...
... He has received many awards, including the Bernard and Rhoda Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health and the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal from the Institute of Medicine, the Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, and the First Carl Taube Award for Distinguished Contributions to Mental Health Services Research and the Rema LaPouse Award from the American Public Health Association. He has written or edited 24 books and approximately 400 research articles, chapters, and other publications.
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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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... . His research interests include: causes of the historical mortality decline, future trends in human mortality and life expectancy at birth, exceptional longevity and possible limits to the human life span, and mortality differentials among social groups within populations.
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  • aging research
  • foreign associate
  • care policy
  • professor marmot
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  • european journal
  • planck institute
  • english longitudinal
  • behavioral sciences
  • longitudinal study

  • population research
  • nih grants
  • social epidemiologist
  • published widely
  • honorary president

  • harveian oration
  • british government
  • social gradient
  • rand chair
  • government advisory


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