PSC In The News
Kalousova and Burgard find credit card debt increases likelihood of foregoing medical care
Pierotti finds shift in global attitudes on intimate partner violence
Highlights
Arline Geronimus wins Excellence in Research Award from School of Public Health
Yu Xie to give DBASSE's David Lecture April 30, 2013 on "Is American Science in Decline?"
U-M grad programs do well in latest USN&WR "Best" rankings
Sheldon Danziger named president of Russell Sage Foundation
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Barbara A. AndersonJerald Bachman
Jennifer S. Barber
John Bound
Sarah Burgard
Philippa J. Clarke
Sheldon H. Danziger
Kathleen Ford
Vicki Freedman
Arline T. Geronimus
Sioban D. Harlow
Steven Heeringa
James S. House
Lloyd Johnston
John E. Knodel
Neal Krause
Yasamin Kusunoki
David Lam
Helen Levy
Jeffrey Morenoff
Lauren Nicholas
Edward Norton
Patrick M. O'Malley
Mary Beth Ofstedal
Amy M. Pienta
Trivellore Raghunathan
Narayan Sastry
Robert F. Schoeni
John E. Schulenberg
Kristin Seefeldt
Rachel C. Snow
Rebecca L. Thornton
David Weir
Yu Xie
Off-Campus
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Sandro Galea
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George A. Kaplan
Murray Leibbrandt
Jay Pearson
Chanpen Saengtienchai
Michael Schoenbaum
Xiaohe Xu
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 Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-50 (Johnston)
A Prospective Model of Medicare Cost Trajectories (Freedman)
A Secular Change in Menstrual Characteristics of Adult and Midlife Women (Harlow)
An Institutional Framework to Promote Global Health Research and Training (Harlow)
Antidepressants, Concurrent Treatments, and Completed Suicide in VA Registry Data
Application of Systems Approaches to Health Disparities & Population Health (Kaplan)
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (Kaplan)
Cognition, Medicare spending and mortality among the elderly (Levy)
Creating a Lifecourse Panel From Birth to Early Adulthood (Sastry)
Detroit Center for Research on Oral Health Disparities
Development of Functional Limitations in the Built Environment of Mid-Aged Women
Diabetic Health Disparities Over the Life Course: Race, Class and Gender
Drug Use and Life Styles of American Youth (Johnston)
Ecologic Stressors, PTSD, and Drug Use in Detroit
Economic and Health Determinants of Retirement Behavior Funding (Brown)
Economic Status, Health, and Well-Being Over the Life Course and Across Generations (Schoeni)
Emerging Disparities in Chronic Disease Risk Among Young Adults (Sastry)
Exploring the Import of Health-Related Residential Mobility to Local Area Studies (Geronimus)
Health Behaviors and Lifestyles in Old Age in the United States and Japan (Krause)
Health Literacy and Health Disparities Among the Elderly (Levy)
Health, Wealth, and Pensions Over the Life Course in a Long Panel (Schoeni)
How do Peers Influence Each Other's Mental Health and Help-Seeking in College?
Incentives for Life (Arunachalam)
Learning Adaptive Treatment Strategies in Mental Health (Murphy)
Mental Health Burden Study (Heeringa)
Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD)
Michigan Historical Demography Workshop (Alter)
Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (Kaplan)
Modeling the Effect of Health on Retirement (Bound)
Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement (Coverage Research Initiative)
Modifiable Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Behaviors in the US Army (Heeringa)
National Study of Disability Trends and Dynamics (Freedman)
Negative Work Conditions and Health Across the Career (Burgard)
Neighborhood and Family Effects on Disparities in Chronic Disease (Sastry)
Neighborhood Effects on Children Health and Access to Care (Sastry)
Neighborhoods and CVD Risk in a Multiethnic Cohort
New Evidence on the Persistence of High Health Spending
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and birth outcomes in Mexico City
Public Housing Demolition, Relocation and Health in Atlanta, Georgia
Race/Ethnicity, Psychosocial and Environmental Stressors, and Telomere Length (Geronimus)
Religion and Suicidal Behavior Among Black Americans
Scaling up Male Circumcision Service Provision (Thornton)
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
Social Environment and Health Program (House)
Socioeconomic Patterning of Inflammation and Hemostasis
Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) IV (Harlow)
Substance use by African-American youth: Spanning two complementary datasets (Schulenberg)
Substance Use Disorders Among Low-Income Women: Treatment Access and Use After Welfare Reform (Danziger)
The Shape of Income and Mortality (Kaplan)
The Urban Environment and HIV Risk Behavior (Galea)
Tools for Measuring and Analyzing Cortisol Levels in Population Studies of Health Disparities
TRENDS - Evaluating Old-Age Disability and Health Trends (Schoeni)
Unconventional Safer Sex Strategies (Thornton)
Under the Skin: Understanding the Role of Stress and Immune Function in Health Disparities
Urban Built Environments and Trajectories of Disability Among Older Adults (Clarke)
Urban Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations (Coverage Research Initiative) (Geronimus)
Urban Social Context, Health and Health Disparities (House)
What Triggers Loss of Health Insurance Among the Near-Elderly? (Levy)
What's so Bad About Crowd-Out? Rethinking the Consequences of SCHIP Expansion (Levy)
Work-family Conflict, Stressful Working Conditions, and Health in the United States (Burgard)
Young Women's Relationships, Contraception, and Unintended Pregnancy (Barber)