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While attention is focused on efforts to make the world go green, the world is also changing dramatically because it is going gray. People over age 65 are starting to outnumber those under 16 in many countries, write Jonathan Grant and Stijn Hoorens.
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Documents the prevalence of obesity and related health conditions for Europeans aged 50 years and older, and estimates the association between obesity and health outcomes across 10 European countries. Cross-country differences in the prevalence of obesity in older Europeans are substantial and exceed socio-demographic differentials in excessive body weight. Obesity is associated with significantly poorer health outcomes among Europeans aged 50 years and over, with effects similar across countries.
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Governments worldwide are searching for ways to cope with ageing populations as the demographic shift towards fewer and later births takes hold.
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This article analyzes how demographic factors are affecting the security environment of Southeast Asia and examines the resulting security implications for the United States.
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This paper explores the impact on public policy of the new demographic realities in European countries.
Report
Considers more demographic and local water-availability factors than most reports linking demography to water resources. Focuses on conditions in developing countries, where these factors intersect with the fewest socioeconomic resources to mediate.
Report
Examines the interrelations between European government policies and demographic trends and behaviour, and assesses which policies can prevent or mitigate the adverse consequences of current low fertility and population ageing.
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Pitfalls of Panel Data: The Case of the SIPP Health Insurance Data
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A Random-Effects Approach to Attrition Bias in the SIPP Health Insurance Data
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The objectives of this study were to provide a national profile of socioeconomic circumstances of the middle-aged and older population living with HIV
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Argues that it is time to move beyond documenting disparities in health care and take action to address them.
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Mortality and Sample Selection: Reply to Noymer
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Social Environment, Life Challenge, and Health Among the Elderly in Taiwan
Report
Demographic shifts are a cause, an effect, and a forerunner of geopolitical shocks and transformations. Examining these shifts is an important step in any strategic assessment of the global security environment.
Report
A RAND-sponsored workshop on Demography and National Security in Paris in November 2000 brought together French, American, and other European demographers; senior representatives from the French Ministry of Defense; and researchers, economists, and experts in geopolitics.
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Summary of a panel discussion at the Conference on Epidemiology and Demography held at Georgetown University, in Washington D.C. on February 8-9, 2001
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Conference on Epidemiology and Demography: Frontiers in Population Health and Aging held at Georgetown University February 8-10, 2001.
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Do Health Interview Surveys Yield Reliable Data on Chronic Illness Among Older Respondents?
Research Brief
Governments in much of Asia must grapple on the one hand with the unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and on the other with the new agenda of noncommunicable ones in an aging population.
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An examination of the consequences of rapid demographic change for U.S. public policy.
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To describe alcohol use and its sociodemographic correlates among persons aged 65 years and older in a US probability sample.
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