The second research area of the three identified by the DBSB in its Report to the NACHHD Council is "Causes and Consequences of Population Health." Within this research area, DBSB identifies three sub-themes of importance: (1) the measurement of demographic trends and differences in population health; (2) exploring the mechanisms through which social, biological, and environmental factors shape individual health, especially among disadvantaged populations; and (3) studies examining the effects of health on individual productivity, family stability, and societal well-being. This is a challenging research agenda, one that requires new biosocial data, innovative analytical strategies and interdisciplinary collaboration that fuses social science, biological, medical, environmental and statistical expertise to measure and understand how health and disease are produced at an individual level over a lifetime and across generations and, at a societal level, how social institutions and the social environment evolve to shape and be shaped by the demographic trends.
CDE's researchers contribute to each sub-theme of DBSB's research agenda on population health. Like the DBSB, we view health as developmental, influenced by past as well as current capacities and experiences. It is determined by complex interactions among, biological, behavioral, environmental and social influences.
CDE Researchers in Health and Mortality
Carter, MichaelDurkin, Maureen
Elwert, Felix
Field, Donald
Fujimura, Joan
Gerber, Ted
Guillot, Michel
Hauser, Robert
Heinrich, Carolyn J.
Herd, Pamela
Holden, Karen C.
Kanarek, Marty S.
Marks, Nadine F.
McEniry, Mary
Merli, M. Giovanna
Mullahy, John
Navarro, Salvador
Palloni, Alberto
Remington, Patrick L.
Robert, Stephanie
Sellers, Sherrill
Smith, Maureen
Walker, James
Winsborough, Halliman
Wolfe, Barbara L.