Links Between Health and Social and Economic Productivity
The factors that contribute to well-being are complex, dynamic, and inter-connected, reflecting experiences and decisions from the past as well as the present, and the embedding of individuals in household, family, and social structures. CPC faculty fellows collect and analyze longitudinal data because it provides information on experiences, time-use, relationships, and health status at multiple points over the life course, which can be harnessed to better understand the co-evolution of well-being and health, particularly at later stages of life.
Associated Projects
Add Health Epigenome Resource: Life course stressors and epigenomic modifications in adulthood
The overall goals of this project are to investigate the influence of life course psychosocial stressors on DNA methylation and gene expression that may influence cardiometabolic health and depression in a US representative study of young adults. The findings from this study will have significant…
Add Health GWAS Data: User Support and Research Tools to Enable Widespread Access
This project is developing tools to enable widespread access to and use of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data among respondents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). The intent is to make Add Health GWAS data more easily accessible, straightforward…
Add Health Parent Study: Phase I
The Add Health Parent Study (2015-2017), gathered social, behavioral, and health survey data in 2015-2017 on a probability sample of the Add Health parents who were originally interviewed in 1995. Data for 2,013 Wave I parents, ranging in age from 50-80 years and representing 2,244…
Black-White Differences in Life Course Exposure to Death: Consequences for Health
Racial/ethnic disparities in life expectancy are well known, with particular disadvantage for black Americans, but scientists have not considered the potential damage to survivors; this project will focus on those survivors to provide the first population-based analysis of race/ethnic differences in exposure to the death…
Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health
The Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health will support a productive group of scholars as they increase the pace and focus of their research on topics related to the demography and economics of aging. Faculty will conduct research and primary data collection in support…
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