Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging (CDEHA)
Investigators
Alan M. Garber (Principal Investigator) - Stanford University
Kathryn M. McDonald - Stanford University
The United States and many other nations are experiencing a rapid increase in their elderly populations, prompting questions about future healthcare needs, how to finance care, and the nature of retirement. To address these issues, CDEHA promotes the study of trends in demography, economics, health, and health care, and the effects of these trends on the well-being of the elderly. The center also encourages cross-disciplinary collaborations and recruits promising trainees and junior faculty to conduct research in this area.
Program areas within CDEHA include health disparities; the economics of retirement and demographic change; international population studies; the effects of medical technology on costs, outcomes and well-being of the elderly; and longitudinal and cohort studies of medical care, costs, and health and economic outcomes in the United States and other countries.
CDEHA builds upon and integrates work across multiple programs at Stanford in population studies, health economics, economics of retirement and medical technology assessment; and across multiple disciplines including statistics, econometrics, epidemiology, population biology and demography.
Contact
Nomita Divi
Funding provided by
• National Institutes of Health
Projects
- Affective Forecasting Across the Lifespan
CHP/PCOR Project - Effects of Obesity on Employer-sponsored Health Insurance
CHP/PCOR Project - Health Improvement under Mao and Its implications for Contemporary Aging in China
CHP/PCOR Project - Health Insurance among the Elderly in Colombia
CHP/PCOR Project - Increasing Physical Activity Among the Elderly: A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Pedometers
CHP/PCOR Project - National Trends and Practice Patterns of Detection and Treatment of Hypertension During Ambulatory Visits in the United States
CHP/PCOR Project - Systematic Review: The Health Benefits and Harms of Gardening Among the Elderly
CHP/PCOR Project - Temperance and the Russian Mortality Crisis
CHP/PCOR Project - The Health Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Forest Fires
CHP/PCOR Project - The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Africa's Orphaned Elderly
CHP/PCOR Project
Publications
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Internet use and stigmatized illness
Magdalena Berger, Todd H. Wagner, Laurence C. Baker
Social Science and Medicine vol. 61 (2005)
Impact of managed care on the treatment, costs, and outcomes of fee-for-service Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction
M. Kate Bundorf, Escarce JJ, Stafford JA, Gaskin D, Jollis J
Health Services Research vol. 39, 1 (2004)
Are the Young Becoming More Disabled?
Darius N. Lakdawalla, Jay Bhattacharya, Dana P. Goldman
Health Affairs vol. 23, 1 (2004)
Racial Disparity in Cardiac Procedures and Mortality among Long-Term Survivors of Cardiac Arrest
Pete Groeneveld, Paul A. Heidenreich, Alan M. Garber
Circulation vol. 108, 3 (2003)
Use of the Internet and E-mail for Health Care Information: Results from a National Survey
Laurence C. Baker, Todd H. Wagner, Sara J. Singer, M. Kate Bundorf
Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 289 (2003)
Events & Presentations
- The Health Effect of Gardening: A Systematic Review
November 19, 2008 CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Dena M. Bravata, Jennifer Schneider, Sarah Jane Selig - The Overlooked Orphans: The Size of the Impact of AIDS on the Orphaned Elderly in sub-Saharan Africa
January 9, 2008 CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Tim Kautz, Jay Bhattacharya, Grant Miller - Increasing Physical Activity: Do Pedometers Work? (CDEHA-funded)
March 14, 2007 CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Dena M. Bravata - Elder-care, Gender and Son Preference: The Role of Cultural Transmission and Diffusion during the Process of Rural-urban Migration in China
January 25, 2006 CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Xiaoyi Jin, PhD
presentation available - National trends in the prescribing of anti-hypertensive medications, 1993-2002
June 29, 2005 CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Jun Ma
presentation available

