Laboratory

Population Health

Project

Why Does Health in the US Continue to Lag Behind?

Mikko Myrskylä, Marcus Ebeling, Enrique Acosta, Neil Kishor Mehta (MPIDR / University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

In this project, a multidisciplinary group of researchers provides an updated and wide-ranging treatment of the question: “What are the main factors driving the US shortfall in health and mortality?” Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Aging, Mortality and Longevity

Region keywords:

USA

Publications

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

The "double jeopardy" of midlife and old age mortality trends in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:42, e2308360120–e2308360120. (2023)

Acosta, E.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.; Ebeling, M.:

Cardiovascular mortality gap between the United States and other high life expectancy countries in 2000–2016

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 77:Suppl. 2, S148–S157. (2022)

Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

An introduction to the supplemental issue on why does health in the US continue to lag behind

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77:Supplement_2, S113–S116. (2022)

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

The growing rural-urban divide in U.S. life expectancy: contribution of cardiovascular disease and other major causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology 50:6, 1970–1978. (2021)

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Research

Social Demography (Myrskylä)
Fertility and Well-Being
Population Health
Research Group: Labor Demography
BIOSFER
MaxHel Center
Digital and Computational Demography (Zagheni)
Migration and Mobility
Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being
Joint Research Labs
Demographic Data
Statistical Demography
Independent Research Groups
Research Group: Kinship Inequalities
Research Group: Gender Inequalities and Fertility
Research Group: Migration and Health Inequalities