Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

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Steadily increasing longevity is both an impressive achievement and a major challenge for the developed world. Continued improvements in life expectancy inevitably contribute to population aging, and are expected to strongly decrease the worker-to-non-worker ratio. The extent to which increasing longevity is good news at the individual and societal level depends on the answers to three key questions. First, are the extra years of life spent in good or in poor health? Second, what factors influence the health status, and how does this vary over the life course and across sociodemographic and spatiotemporal contexts? Three, how can health be measured, and which methods, models, and measures are most suitable for the analysis of population health? Research being conducted at the laboratory of Population Health focuses on these three questions.   Detailed Description

Selected Publications

Abrams, L. R.; Brower, N.; Myrskylä, M.; Mehta, N. K.:

Pervasive stagnation: flat and increasing cardiovascular disease mortality rates after 2010 across US states and counties

American Journal of Epidemiology 194:8, 2261–2269. (2025)       

Afable, S. B. D.; Vierboom, Y. C.; Evans, M.; Mikolai, J.; Kulu, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

Health decline and residential transitions among older adults in Europe

Population, Space and Place 31:7, e70116–e70116. (2025)    

Andrade Santacruz, J. C.; Camarda, C. G.; Pifarré i Arolas, H.:

Cohort mortality forecasts indicate signs of deceleration in life expectancy gains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122:35, e2519179122–e2519179122. (2025)       

Ebeling, M.; Peters, F.:

National life expectancy lags behind benchmark progress and the role of smoking: an international comparison

European Journal of Population 42:1, 1–22. (2025)    

Evans, M.; Newmyer, L.:

A state-level examination into structural racism and racialized disparities in sexually transmitted infections

Spatial Demography 13:4, 1–31. (2025)    

Hiilamo, A.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Dierker, P.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Heterogenous long-term health and social outcomes of type 1 diabetes: a full population 30-year observational cohort study

American Journal of Epidemiology 195:1, 117–125. (2025)    

Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.; Loi, S.:

Living arrangements and chronic disease accumulation among native-born and immigrant older adults in Europe

Social Science and Medicine 373:117954, 1–10. (2025)    

Kniffka, M. S.; Schöley, J.; Lee, D. S.; Bertens, L. C. M.; Been, J. V.; Gunnarsdottir, J.:

Stillbirth rate trends across 25 European countries between 2010 and 2021: the contribution of maternal age and multiplicity

European Journal of Public Health 35:2, 319–327. (2025)       

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Andrade Santacruz, J. C.; Myrskylä, M.:

An overlapping cohorts perspective of lifespan inequality

Demography 62:2, 441–465. (2025)       

Schöley, J.:

The impact of population heterogeneity on the age trajectory of neonatal mortality: a study of US births 2008–2014

Demographic Research 53:7, 187–218. (2025)