Background: It is unknown if a survival gap remains between HIV-infected and HIV-
uninfected individuals with access to care. Methods: We conducted a cohort study within …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

The onset of Medicare eligibility at age 65 leads to sharp changes in the health insurance
coverage of the US population. These changes lead to increases in the use of medical …

Survival in type 1 diabetes has improved, but the impact on life expectancy in the US type 1
diabetes population is not well established. Our objective was to estimate the life expectancy …

Objectives. We estimated total life expectancy and driving life expectancy of US drivers aged
70 years and older. Methods. Life table methods were applied to 4699 elderly persons who …

Dual labor market theory asserts that the American labor market is sharply divided between
good jobs and bad jobs, and that mobility between these two segments of the market is …

Conventional population projections use “high,”“medium,” and “low” scenarios to indicate
uncertainty, but probability interpretations are rarely given, and in any event the resulting …

Sustainability of pension systems, intergeneration fiscal equity under population aging, and
accounting for health care benefits for future retirees are examples of problems that cannot …

Background Although the general relations between race, socioeconomic status, and
mortality in the United States are well known, specific patterns of excess mortality are not …

Demography is a multidisciplinary and multifaceted field within a discipline; therefore any
attempt to describe its past and project its future depends on which disciplines and which …