Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Methods, Models, and Measures in Population Health

Kieron Barclay, Christian Dudel, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Roland Rau, Mikko Myrskylä, Rasmus Hoffmann; in Collaboration with Hector Pifarre i Arolas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

This project aims to develop and extend methods, models, and measures to enhance the quantitative analysis of population health data. The applications include rank-based measures of population health, mortality forecasts, and decomposition techniques.  Detailed Description

Publications

Mehta, N. K.; Zheng, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

How do age and major risk factors for mortality interact over the life-course? Implications for health disparities research and public health policy

SSM-Population Health 8:100438, 1–10. (2019)    

Pifarre i Arolas, H.; Dudel, C.:

An ordinal measure of population health

Social Indicators Research 143:3, 1219–1243. (2019)    

Kröger, H.; Hoffmann, R.:

The association between CVD-related biomarkers and mortality in the Health and Retirement Survey

Demographic Research 38:62, 1933–2002. (2018)    

Pifarre i Arolas, H.; Dudel, C.:

An ordinal measure of population health

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-010. (2017)