With more people living longer and healthier lives, along with a simultaneous decline in fertility rates, societies are facing a challenge to adapt to this “rectangularization” of the demographic pyramid. In this piece on the increase in life expectancy and “health span” in The Harvard Gazette, Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman explains how this trend could improve our work force, and how it may be contributing to our national…
Harvard Gazette: “Amid India elections, Harvard study aligns data with constituencies”
More on the “India Factsheet” project by S V Subramanian, Rockli Kim and colleagues in this piece in The Harvard Gazette…
What can we do to help people from gaining too much weight?
Professor Sara Bleich, a Harvard Pop Center faculty member, sheds light on how our environment can shape our behavior (and our body), and shares her journey to becoming a public policy expert on obesity in this piece in The Harvard Gazette.
Pop Center faculty share insights into U.S. health inequalities in Harvard Gazette’s series on inequality
Pop Center faculty members Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Ashish Jha, MD, Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, Joshua Salomon, PhD, SV Subramanian, PhD, and David Williams, PhD, are among the Harvard scholars cited on health inequalities in this Harvard Gazette article, the fourth in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to address inequality in the United States. The piece was covered in this issue of U.S. News and World Report.
Aging In Health
Data from the past two decades confirms that more people are getting healthier as they age, finds David Cutler, Pop Center faculty member. Read more …