Data
What is period data?
This stage of the epidemiologic transition was characterized by a life expectancy at birth of 20 to 40 years & most deaths were caused by infectious diseases
What is the Age of Pestilence and Famine?
This central measure of population health saw a drop of approximately 2 years because of the COVID-19 pandemic
What is life expectancy?
The "glue" holding together the pieces of the puzzle of America's health disadvantage
What is states and counties?
This type of data surveys a different random selection of individuals at different time points (e.g., surveying 10,000 new people every year)
What is cross-sectional data?
Contributed the most to improved population health in the US from 1870 to 1920
What is public health initiatives?
This is considered by some to be the deadliest epidemic.
What is the smoking epidemic?
Ronald Reagan undermined a union of this type of workers, creating lasting consequences for income inequality and population health.
What is air traffic controllers?
A web of connections between people; resources (like gossip) can flow through them
What are social networks?
This CDC department tracks births and deaths in the US
What is Vital Statistics?
What are infectious diseases?
The three topics we had in-class mini debates on
What is social media, AI, and weight loss drugs?
This US age group tends to be as healthy or even healthier than their peers in other high-income countries
What is the elderly (75+)?
These are suggested to help address wealth inequality starting at the beginning of life
What are Baby Bonds?
Wave 6 of the Add Health Study includes new measures on this
What is cognitive functioning?
Medical/scientific innovations
Name for the trend of rising mortality among middle-age whites from drugs, alcohol, and suicide.
What is Deaths of Despair?
The best cross-national data shows that the United States is this many years behind the world leaders in terms of population health
What is 40-50 years behind?
Religious attendance
This cohort study is housed at UMich and has participants aged 50+
What is the Health and Retirement Study?
This caused a huge drop in life expectancy in the US in 1918.
What is the Spanish Influenza?
About 40% of adults experience this epidemic that is predicted to cause future rising mortality
What is the Obesity Epidemic?
The year the National Academies released "shorter lives, poorer health," the report showing that the US falls behind its peers when it comes to health
What is 2013?
The shifting of the fiscal and regulatory control of social services from the federal gov't to the states
What is devolution?