Friday, April 18 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Napoleon B1

Session 71:
Adult Mortality Differences by Race/Ethnicity

Chair: Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Douglas Ewbank, University of Pennsylvania

  1. Racial and Ethnic Variation in Health Inequalities in the U.S.Rachel T. Kimbro, Rice University ; Sharon Bzostek, Princeton University ; Germán Rodríguez, Princeton University

  2. To Live and Die in the United States: Race, Place and Black/White Health Inequalities during The 1990sCynthia G. Colen, Ohio State University ; Arline Geronimus, University of Michigan ; John Bound, University of Michigan

  3. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Functional Health Trajectories and their Life Course Antecedents: Results from a Two-part Latent Growth Curve Model for Semi-Continuous DataSteven A. Haas, Arizona State University ; Leah Rohlfsen, Arizona State University

  4. Disability among Native-Born and Foreign-Born Black Residents in the United States: Evidence from the 2000 Census of Population and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), 2000-2006Irma T Elo, University of Pennsylvania ; Neil Mehta, University of Pennsylvania ; Cheng Huang, Emory University

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