Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Spatial Inequalities in Health and Mortality

Kieron Barclay, Silvia Loi, Yana Catherine Vierboom, Mathias Lerch; in Collaboration with Samuel H. Preston (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

Many population health metrics show improving population health, but these aggregated patterns mask significant regional differences in progress. In this project, we document spatial inequalities in health and mortality.  Detailed Description

Publications

Stelter, R.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Representativeness is crucial for inferring demographic processes from online genealogies: evidence from lifespan dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:10, e2120455119–e2120455119. (2022)    

Stelter, R.; De la Croix, D.; Myrskylä, M.:

Leaders and laggards in life expectancy among European scholars from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century

Demography 58:1, 111–135. (2021)    

Vierboom, Y. C.; Preston, S. H.:

Life beyond 65: changing spatial patterns of survival at older ages in the United States, 2000-2016

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 75:5, 1093–1103. (2020)    

Vierboom, Y. C.; Preston, S. H.; Hendi, A. S.:

Rising geographic inequality in mortality in the United States

SSM-Population Health 9:100478, 1–14. (2019)