Laboratory

Population Health

Project

Spatial Inequalities in Health and Mortality

Kieron Barclay, 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

Research Keywords:

Ageing, Mortality and Longevity, Health Care, Public Health, Medicine, and Epidemiology, Internal Migration, Housing, Urbanisation

Region keywords:

Switzerland, USA

Publications

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. accepted. (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.:

Rising geographic inequality in mortality in the United States

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

Lerch, M.; Oris, M.; Wanner, P.:

Periurbanization and the transformation of the urban mortality gradient in Switzerland

Population: English Edition 72:1, 93–122. (2017)

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Research

Department Myrskylä
Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being

Laboratory of Population Health
Research Group: Labor Demography
Department Zagheni
Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography [Migration, Aging, the Environment]
Joint Research Labs
Laboratory of Demographic Data
Laboratory of Statistical Demography
Independent Research Groups
Research Group: Lifespan Inequalities
Research Group: Mathematical and Actuarial Demography
Max Planck Research Group: Gender Gap in Health and Survival