Health, Disability, and Mortality

PSC has become a major center for research on health, disability, and mortality conducted by Center researchers from sociology, economics, public health, epidemiology, psychology, education, and mathematics. Research projects currently underway in this area include large-scale data collections such as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Health and Retirement Study, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations.

Funded Research and Affiliated Programs

A Study of Adolescent Substance Abuse Policies and Programs (ASAPP) (Johnston)

African American Mental Health Research Program

Alcohol-Related Risk Behavior: Adolescent to Young Adult

An Institutional Framework to Promote Global Health Research and Training (Harlow)

Beliefs About Genes and Environment as Causes of Behavior (Singer)

Breast Cancer Treatment Decisions and Outcomes in Latinas

Building A Research Community On Genomics And Racial Ethnic Identity

Center for African American Urban Health (Pienta)

Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (Kaplan)

Conference on Interactions Between Poverty and HIV/AIDS (Lam)

Cyclical, Intergenerational and Life Course Measures of Economics and Social Behavior: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (Stafford)

Detroit Center for Research on Oral Health Disparities

Diabetes Associations with Caries and Tooth Loss in NHanes III

Economic and Health Determinants of Retirement Behavior Funding (Brown)

Economic, Lifestyle, and Social Influences on Obesity (Johnston)

Estrogen Metabolism, Menopause, and Health Outcomes

Examining gendered bullying, its psychological and academic outcomes and anti-harassment policies among rural high school students.

Grammars of Death: 19th-Century Literal Causes of Death (Leonard)

HANDLS (Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan) Sample Design and Selection (Lepkowski)

Health and Function over Three Decades in Alameda County (Kaplan)

Health and Society Scholars Program (Kaplan)

Health Disparities: Leaders, Providers, and Patients

Health Effects on Nonhealth Policy (Schoeni)

Health Insurance and Labor Supply: Evidence from Hypothetical Shocks to Wealth (Coverage Research Initiative) (Kimball)

Improving the Value of CDS-I For the User Community (Stafford)

Internet Interviewing and the HRS (Willis)

Late-Life Health Trends: Disparities and Causes (Schoeni)

Life Course Wealth, Health and Mortality in the PSID (Stafford)

Mexico: Maquila, Environmental Vulnerability, and Health (Harlow)

Michigan Center for Health Communications Research

Michigan Historical Demography Workshop (Alter)

Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (Kaplan)

Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement (Coverage Research Initiative)

Population Studies Center Infrastructure Grant (Thornton)

Race, family factors and adolescent drug use (Broman)

Rapid Vaccination of Hard-to-reach Populations

Reducing Drug Abuse with Individually Tailored Treatments (Murphy)

Social and Physical Environments and Health Disparities

Social Environment and Health Program (House)

Socioeconomic Patterning of Inflammation and Hemostasis

Staging Reproductive Aging Across Five Cohort Studies (Harlow)

Study of Women's Health Across the Nation- SWAN III Michigan Center

The Costs and Burden of Declining Health Among Nursing Home Residents in Michigan

The Neighborhood Environment and Drug Use (Galea)

The Role of Trauma Exposure in Drug Use and HIV Risk

The Urban Environment and HIV Risk Behavior (Galea)

TRENDS - Evaluating Old-Age Disability and Health Trends (Schoeni)

Urban Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations (Coverage Research Initiative) (Geronimus)

Urban Social Context, Health and Health Disparities (House)

Widowhood, Divorce and Loss of Health Insurance Among Near Elderly Women: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (Coverage Research Initiative) (Weir)

World Mental Health Consortium Annual Meetings 2003-07 (Heeringa)

Youth Smoking and the Media (Johnston)


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Recent resources, events, news

New Publications

Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"

Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

Next Brown Bag

Tues, Dec 1
Arland Thornton & Barb Koremenos
Mobilizing for Human Rights
For live stream
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