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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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600 West 168th Street     Room: The Alan B. Slifka Conference Room, 6th Floor

Event Title:

HPM Brown Bag Seminars
"The system is down. Changes in 15-year mortality at age 45 and 65 in the United States relative to other industrialized nations, 1975-2005"

Event Type:

Seminar Series

Sponsor:

Department of Health Policy and Management

Speakers:

Peter Muennig, PhD
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

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Open to the Columbia Community

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No 

Description:

Advocates of health reform in the US often point to the nation’s skyrocketing medical care costs and falling life expectancy rankings. Some critics argue that these poor comparative outcomes can be attributed to the US’s sociodemographic diversity, bad habits, high traffic accident fatalities, and murder rates. Others argue that international differences in birth coding are to blame. We use cross-national data on survival over time to examine the validity of these arguments.