Research Area: 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.

Recent Publications

Books

Albert, Steven M., and Vicki Freedman. 2010. Public health and aging : maximizing function and well-being. New York : Springer.

Johnston, Lloyd, and Patrick M. O'Malley. 2009. Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2008 (2 volumes). Bethesda, Md. : National Institute on Drug Abuse, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health,.

Krause, Neal. 2008. Aging in the Church: How Social Relationships Affect Health. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press.

Schoeni, Robert F., James S. House, George A. Kaplan, and Harold Pollack. 2008. Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Bachman, Jerald, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd Johnston, P. Freedman-Doan, and E. E. Messersmith. 2008. The education-drug use connection: How successes and failures in school relate to adolescent smoking, drinking, drug use, and delinquency. New York.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Taylor & Francis.

Galea, Sandro. 2007. Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health. New York: Springer.

Johnston, Lloyd, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald Bachman, and John E. Schulenberg. 2007. Monitoring the Future national results on adolescent drug use: Overview of key findings, 2006 (NIH Publication No. 07-6202). Bethesda, MD : National Institute on Drug Abuse.