Session 31:
Understanding Variation in Health and Survival
Chair: Kimberly V Smith, Princeton University
Discussant: Marcia C. Castro, Harvard University
Older Persons in Urban Areas of Latin America and the Caribbean: Active Life Expectancy and Multidimensional Disability Profiles from Sabe • Dulce Baptista, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Social Institutions and Health Inequalities: A Cross-National Perspective • Megan Beckett, RAND ; Marc Elliott, RAND ; Marika Suttorp, RAND
Explaining Cross-National Differences in Inequality of Mortality • Christiaan Monden, Tilburg University ; Jeroen Smits, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
The Effect of Obesity and Diabetes on Mortality among Older Adults in Latin America and the Caribbean: Is It a Different Phenomenon than in the U.S.? • Malena Monteverde, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Beatriz Novak, University of Wisconsin at Madison
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