[Brownbag] Fwd: Anne Case Speaking on Morbidity and Mortality in Working Class America: March 16 (fwd)
Monique Verrier
monique at demog.berkeley.edu
Tue Jan 30 16:45:03 PST 2018
Please note the following correction:
The speaker is Anne Case, not Anna Case. My apologies. The email below has
been corrected.
Monique
Monique Verrier
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:34:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Monique Verrier <monique at demog.berkeley.edu>
To: brownbag at demog.berkeley.edu
Subject: Fwd: Anne Case Speaking on Morbidity and Mortality in Working
Class America: March 16 (fwd)
Dear Demography Community,
Please see an announcement, below, for an event on March 16 that might be of
interest to you.
Monique
Begin forwarded message:
From: Elena Lunt <elenalunt at berkeley.edu>
Subject: Anne 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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