Session 31: Understanding Variation in Health and Survival

Thursday, March 29 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Chelsea 7th floor

Chair: Kimberly V Smith, Princeton University
Discussant: Marcia C. Castro, Harvard University

1.	Older Persons in Urban Areas of Latin America and the Caribbean: Active Life Expectancy and Multidimensional Disability Profiles from Sabe  •  Dulce Baptista, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2.	Social Institutions and Health Inequalities: A Cross-National Perspective  •  Megan Beckett, RAND; Marc Elliott, RAND; Marika Suttorp, RAND

3.	Explaining Cross-National Differences in Inequality of Mortality  •  Christiaan Monden, Tilburg University; Jeroen Smits, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

4.	The Effect of Obesity and Diabetes on Mortality among Older Adults in Latin America and the Caribbean: Is It a Different Phenomenon than in the U.S.?  •  Malena Monteverde, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Beatriz Novak, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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