Program

REVES PROGRAM FINAL

Program updated June 12th.

Presentation slides:

Session 1. Past, present and future trends in population health, part

• Crimmins E, Zhang Y, Kim JK & Levine M. “Changing disease, onset and mortality in two cohorts from the Health and Retirement Study”
• Schellekens JJ. “Explaining trends in disability in the United States, 1963-2013”
• Lefebvre J & Carrière Y. “Trends in the health status of Canadians aged 45 and over, 1994-2014”
• Riffe T, Mehta N, Schneider D & Myrskylä. “Healthy lives: Delayed onset, improved recovery, or mortality change?”

Session 2. A global look at risk factors

• Brønnum-Hansen H. “The impact of smoking on expected lifetime without and with chronic disease among Palestinian men in the West Bank”
• Kingston A, Byles J, Anstey K & Jagger C. “Impact of obesity on disability-free life expectancies in older Australians“

Session 3. Developments in measures and methods, part 1

• Galenkamp H, Deeg D, Braam A & Huisman M. “Self-rated health: when and how to use it in studies among older people?”
• Luy M, Di Giulio P, di Lego V, Lazarevič & Sauerberg M. “Could the actual decrease in life expectancy be caused by “Tempo Effects”?”
• Chei CL, Chan A, Malhotra & Saito Y. “Validity of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI) in an Asian setting”
• Brouard N, Shih YC & Giudici C. “The new Interpolated Markov Chain software (IMaCh 0.99) – backward prevalence from Italian SILC and French HID surveys – time varying covariates from the American HRS survey”

Session 4. Exploring social inequalities in health

• Cambois E, Garrouste C & Pailhé A. “A long-term harm of unskilled first jobs, episodes of inactivity and no promotion”
• Peele M. “Later-life health trajectories in China: The role of childhood, adult, and current community socioeconomic conditions”
• Duim E, Antunes JLF, Albala C, Duarte YAO & Fuentes-Garcia A. “Inequalities in trajectories of functioning in dwelling-living older adults in two developing countries: Brazil and Chile”
• Solé-Auró A & Lozano M. “Inequalities in longevity by education level in Spain: A life satisfaction approach”

Session 5. Life and health in comparative perspective

• Nusselder WJ, Valverde JR & Mackenbach JP. “A comparative study of inequalities in Unhealthy Life Years”
• Ehrlich JR. “Vision impairment among older adults in low and middle income countries”
• Bardo AR & Lynch SM. “U.S. regional differences in cognitive and happy life expectancy”
• Dowd JB & Zajacova A. “Trends in mid-life mortality: Is the US an anomaly? Evidence from the UK and Canada“

Session 6. Contemporary themes around health and mortality

• Qiao X, Wu J & Zhao X. “Changing of mortality and morbidity of Chinese elderly”
• di Lego V & Turra CM. “Vanguards of longevity: The case of Brazilian Air Force military”
• Gavrilova NS & Gavrilov LA. “New trend in the U.S. Mortality: Gompertzialization of Mortality Trajectory”
• Wolfson MC & Rowe G. “On unjust health inequalities“

Session 7. Past, present and future trends in population health, part 2

• Freedman VA. “Recent changes in active life expectancy in the US: An Introduction to NHATS (National Health and Aging Trends Study)”
• Parmar MC & Saikia N. “Regional analysis of compression of mortality and morbidity in India: 1995-2014”
• Zajacova A & Zimmer Z. “The rising pain prevalence among US and Canadian adults: A comparative study”

George Myers Lecture

• Carol Jagger “What can past trends in health expectancy tell us about the future?”

Session 8. Developments in Measures and Methods, Part 2

• Weeks JD. “Future directions of Functioning Measures in the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)“
• Wolf D & Montez JK. “Heterogeneity in active life expectancy: A finite mixture model”
• Wolfson MC & Bijelic V. “Unobserved heterogeneity and the robustness of estimates of the effects of income on life expectancy – An illustrative and hypothetical example“
• Van Oyen H, Bogaert P, Beluche I, Cambois E & Robine JM. “The use of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI) and Healthy Life Years by Member States and the European Commission”

 Session 9. Investigations pertaining to the older-old, the last years of life and frailty

• Hoogendijk E. “Sex differences in healthy life expectancy among nonagenarians: A multistate survival model using data from the Vitality 90+ study”
• Herr M, Arvieu JJ, Ankri J & Robine JM. “Life expectancy in the state of frailty after age 70: findings in the SIPAF Study”
• Zazueta-Borboa JD & Ham-Chande R. “Health status and out-of-pocket spending during the last year of life in Mexican Population 60+”
• Malhotra R, Visaria A, Chei CL, Chiu CT, Allen JC, Ma S, Wong CH, Chan A, Saito Y, Østbye & Matchar DB.  “Years of life lived by elderly Singaporeans with and without frailty”

Session 10. Cognition and dementia research

• Lynch SM & Bardo AR. “Cognitive and happy life expectancy in the US: Implications of differential measurement of cognitive impairment and happiness for estimates of quality of life”
• Farina M, Hayward M, Crimmins E & Kim JK. “Race and education disparities in dementia-free life expectancy for older Americans”
• Ailshire J. “Regional variation in U.S. dementia trends and race/ethnic disparities in cognitive impairment and dementia”
• Andrade F. “Educational differentials on life expectancy with and without cognitive impairment in Brazil”

Poster Presentations (prize winners denoted by *):

1. *Libby G, Zimmer Z, Chiu CT, Ofstedal MB, Saito Y, Haviva C & Jagger C.  “To what degree do religiosity and spirituality explain healthy life expectancy gaps across Europe?“
2. Teerawichitchainan BK & Loichinger E. “Sensory impairments among older persons in Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand: Implications for functioning and health”
3. Sonnega A, Leggett A, Pepin R & Assari S. “Running to rest: Physical activity and sleep problems over 10 years in a national sample of older adults”
4. Ahmed MEH “Healthy life expectancy and the correlates of self-rated health in Central Sudan. A Cross sectional study”
5. Mulhorn KA, Dugan J & Booshehri L. “Functional decline and all-Cause mortality based on respondents in US nursing home survey (2004-2006)”
6. *Lee H, Ofstedal MB, Smith J. “Childhood family environment and cognitive functioning in later life: Evidence from the HRS Life History Mail Survey”
7. Yang Y. “Can regular fruit consumption reduce the risks of cognitive impairment? — Evidences from a large-scale social survey”
8. Ojima T, Hosokawa R, Horii S, Yokoyama Y, Aida J, Saito M, Kondo N & Kondo K. “Life expectancy without institutionalization as an operational measurement of age and dementia friendly communities”
9. Teerawichitchainan BK, Ha JH & Knodel J. “Childlessness and aging alone: Comparative perspectives from East and Southeast Asia”
10. *Lazarevic P & Brandt M. “Self-rated health as generic health measurement? Identifying the health information used and the role of gender, age, and country”
11. Raichur V, Ryan L, Mejia ST, Gonzalez R & Smith J. “Longitudinal analysis of changing consumption patterns in aging households in the US”
12. Hsiao RL & Saito Y. “Validating the Global Activity Limitation Indicator in Taiwan”