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Healthy Immigrants, Unhealthy Ageing?

Every year, millions of people decide to leave their homes and move to Europe for many and varied reasons. But what happens to their health after the migration as they grow old in another country? Su Yeon Jang, together with Anna Oksuzyan, Mikko Myrskylä, Frank van Lenthe and Silvia Loi, explored this question in their latest paper.

Every year, millions of people decide to leave their homes and move to Europe for many and varied reasons. But what happens to their health after the migration as they grow old in another country? Su Yeon Jang, together with Anna Oksuzyan, Mikko Myrskylä, Frank van Lenthe and Silvia Loi, explored this question in their latest paper.

Physically Constructed and Socially Shaped: Socio-Material Environment and Walking for Transportation in Later Life

Physically Constructed and Socially Shaped: Socio-Material Environment and Walking for Transportation in Later Life

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Yang Li investigates three intersecting environmental dimensions on late-life walking: built structures, social infrastructure, and social capital, conceptually basing it on the ecological framework of place within a life course perspective.
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Smoke in any direction

The contribution of smoking on regional mortality differences
Pavel Grigoriev and Sebastian Klüsener (German Federal Institute for Population Research) and Alyson van Raalte (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) examine the effect of smoking on German regional differences in mortality.

Pavel Grigoriev and Sebastian Klüsener (German Federal Institute for Population Research) and Alyson van Raalte (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) examine the effect of smoking on German regional differences in mortality.

GGP-5D Project

GGP kicks off GGP-5D project

The Generations and Gender Programme entered a new era of its existence with the kick-off of the GGP-5D project. This new project will lead the GGP onto an institutionalised pathway of European Research Infrastructure Consortia.
Storia demografica d'Italia

Storia demografica d'Italia

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The book reconstructs Italy's demographic path in relation to cultural, social and economic changes. By adopting a long-term perspective, this book helps understand Italy in the present and grasp the scope of the challenges that demography poses to the country's future.

The book reconstructs Italy's demographic path in relation to cultural, social and economic changes. By adopting a long-term perspective, this book helps understand Italy in the present and grasp the scope of the challenges that demography poses to the country's future.

Public Health Expenditure and Life Expectancy: A Healthy Investment During the financial crisis and subsequent economic recession, life expectancy in Spain continued its growth trend, rising from 82.3 years in 2008 to 82.92 years in 2014. However, in a context of low mortality rates, it is also important to know about the evolution of time in which we live in good and bad health. Spain’s great regional heterogeneity and its decentralised public health system make it possible to observe how a var

Public Health Expenditure and Life Expectancy: A Healthy Investment

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They analyse the evolution of years lived with and without the most prevalent and disabling health conditions after the age of 50 in 17 Spanish Autonomous Communities in order to understand their association with several macro socioeconomic factors, public provision of health services, public health expenditure, and health-related behaviours.

they analyse the evolution of years lived with and without the most prevalent and disabling health conditions after the age of 50 in 17 Spanish Autonomous Communities in order to understand their association with several macro socioeconomic factors, public provision of health services, public health expenditure, and health-related behaviours.

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