[Brownbag] Fwd: Anna Case Speaking on Morbidity and Mortality in Working Class America: March 16 (fwd)

[Monique Verrier]

Dear Demography Community,

Please see an announcement, below, for an event on March 16 that might be 
of interest to you.

Monique


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From: Elena Lunt <elenalunt at berkeley.edu>
Subject: Anna Case Speaking on Morbidity and Mortality in Working Class America: March 16
Date: January 30, 2018 at 10:42:04 AM PST
To: olab.faculty at lists.berkeley.edu

Dear O-Lab,

Please see below for information on a talk given by Anne Case.

Date/Time: March 16, 2018 12:00-1:30

Location: GSPP, Room 250. 1893 Le Roy St, UC Berkeley

Sponsored by HIFIS

Anne Case (Princeton University) will present research on "Morbidity and Mortality in Working Class America." This is
part of research, joint with Angus Deaton (Princeton), documenting and exploring falling mortality for middle aged
Americans - deaths of despair.

Summary: Around the turn of the century, after decades of improvement, all-cause mortality rates among white
non-Hispanic men and women in middle age stopped falling in the US, and began to rise. While midlife mortality continued
to fall in other rich countries, and in other racial and ethnic groups in the US, white non-Hispanic mortality rates for
prime-aged adults increased. Mortality declines from the two biggest killers in middle age—cancer and heart disease—were
offset by marked increases in drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related liver mortality in this period. By 2014,
rising mortality in midlife, led by these "deaths of despair," was large enough to offset mortality gains for children
and the elderly, leading to a decline in life expectancy at birth among white non-Hispanics between 2013 and 2014, and a
decline in overall life expectancy at birth in the US between 2014 and 2015. Mortality increases for whites in midlife
were paralleled by morbidity increases, including deteriorations in self-reported physical and mental health, and rising
reports of chronic pain. My current research, supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging, seeks to
understand this turn of events.


Best,

Elena

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Elena Lunt | Project Manager
Opportunity Lab | UC Berkeley

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