Brazil has historically seen higher mortality among urban residents compared to rural counterparts, despite better self-reported health among urban residents and better access to healthcare services. ...

A machine learning approach suggests that COVID-19 deaths were undercounted unevenly across sociodemographic groups in 2020–2021.

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This study aims to estimate the number of excess deaths attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires using an interrupted time series design.

Purpose To examine disparities in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan mortality by state and sex from 1999 to 2019. Methods We calculate age-standardized mortality rates for nonmetropolitan and metro...

Studies on international migrants have repeatedly found a mortality advantage of migrant over native-born populations. Data artifacts, differential pr…

Interdisciplinary health scholarship has long documented the lower mortality of the foreign-born compared to the US-born populations. In this study, w…

Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Social Inequalities in Health

This report presents initial findings from a project investigating the direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 in the post-acute phase of the pandemic.

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This dissertation makes three scientific contributions to the understanding of how human populations react to environmental and epidemiological shocks. The first chapter investigates the impact of tro...

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Tropical storms are among the most devastating natural disasters in the USA. Climate change is projected to make them even more destructive, and the number of people and properties at risk has steadil...

In a break from the past, the Western world’s wealthiest people no longer try to support the societies they live in.

Small Area Estimation Workshop for UPenn Sociology and Demography Quantitative Methodology Working Group - GitHub - eugeniopaglino/qmwg_sme: Small Area Estimation Workshop for UPenn Sociology and D...