SV Subramanian (Subu) is co-author of a recently published study that explores the role that choice of foods plays in diabetes prevention in a developing country.
David Cutler’s discusses his new book about the American health care system, “The Quality Cure”
Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member David Cutler spoke about his book The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too on healthinsurance.org’s Curbside Consult.
Self-confidence of Fukushima mothers lower after nuclear power plant disaster
A first look at maternal self-confidence after experiencing a nuclear power accident co-authored by former Harvard Pop Center director and current affiliated faculty member Michael R. Reich suggests that such disasters do lower maternal self-confidence, which can lead to an increase in interpersonal problems and depression.
Are older sexual partners a major risk factor for HIV for young women in sub-Saharan Africa?
Although it is commonly thought that older sexual partners are a major risk factor for HIV for young women in sub-Saharan Africa (and there have been public health campaigns launched to discourage these relationships) in a recent study co-authored by Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty members Ichiro Kawachi, SV Subramanian, and Till Bärnighausen partner age-disparity did not predict HIV acquisition amongst young women.
Temporary migration and epidemiology trends in rural South Africa
Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty Kathleen Kahn and Stephen Tollman have co-authored a study that finds that in the Agincourt sub-district of northeast South Africa, temporary migration (migrants relocating mainly for work purposes and remaining linked to the rural household) is more important than age and gender in explaining variations in mortality, whatever the cause. The study suggests that public health policies should account for population mobility, and that the…
Continue reading “Temporary migration and epidemiology trends in rural South Africa”
“Widowhood effect” may be in effect prior to bereavement
It is well documented that recently bereaved spouses are exposed to an increased mortality risk (known as the “widowhood effect”). Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty members SV Subramanian (Subu), PhD, and Maria Glymour, ScD, have co-authored a study published in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry that reveals that spousal health actually starts to decline prior to the death of the loved one, suggesting that interventions designed to mitigate the…
Continue reading ““Widowhood effect” may be in effect prior to bereavement”
Videos of Speaker Presentations at 50th Anniversary Symposium
In honor of its 50th anniversary, the Harvard Pop Center recently held a symposium titled Reimagining Societies in the Face of Demographic Change that featured presentations by Julio Frenk, Lisa Berkman, Babatunde Osotimehin, Jack Rowe, and Sir Michael Marmot, as well as a panel discussion including Pop Center Associate Director David Canning and faculty members Amitabh Chandra, SV Subramanian (Subu), and Mary Waters. Video recordings of these presentations and discussions are…
Continue reading “Videos of Speaker Presentations at 50th Anniversary Symposium”
Rural South Africa seeing increase in mortality in population aged over 50 due to HIV/TB
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and affiliated researchers Kathleen Kahn, PhD, and Stephen Tollman, PhD, have co-authored a study published in the International Journal of Social Epidemiology that examines the social conditions and disability related to the mortality of older people in rural South Africa.
Study shows link between lack of sleep and increased body fat in children
As reported on the Harvard Medical School’s website, a new study by Pop Center affiliated faculty members Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH and Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM published in Pediatrics shows a strong link between chronic lack sleep (from infancy through mid-childhood) and increased body fat.
Can public social services facilitate the integration of immigrants into modern welfare states?
Using a universal service delivery model designed to facilitate the integration of Moroccan immigrants into a rural municipality of Spain, Rocio Calvo, a visiting scientist at the Harvard Pop Center, and Mary Waters, a Harvard sociologist and member of the Pop Center’s faculty steering committee, explore the ‘progressive’s dilemma’ in their recent study published in the The British Journal of Social Work.