Human Biodemography: Some challenges and possibilities

Kaare Christensen
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Kaare Christensen: Syddansk Universitet

Demographic Research, 2008, vol. 19, issue 43, 1575-1586

Abstract: This opinion report - in a series on the future of biodemography - focuses on promising areas that I think will be valuable to develop in the future in order to get a better understanding of the determinants of the health and well-being of elderly people. I discuss two major themes: i) the benefits of strengthening the ties between biodemography and medical-clinical disciplines to better understand the link between functioning/diseases/ vulnerability and mortality, ii) the male-female health-survival paradox (i.e., males report better health than females, but encounter higher mortality at all ages), and how this paradox may shed light on fundamental aging processes.

Keywords: mortality; elderly; male/female differences; aging; longitudinal; determinants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.19.43

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