Arline Geronimus was presented the 2013 Excellence in Research Award at U-M School of Public Health’s graduation ceremonies May 2. This award recognizes outstanding scholarly and creative activity in research, and represents productivity, leadership, and peer...
In this opinion piece on the negative outcomes of nurse understaffing for patient care, the author cites the “pioneering work” of Linda Aiken on the impact of practice environment on quality of care and patient safety.
After 19 years, Professor Ron Lee has stepped down from his position as Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) at UC-Berkeley. Professor Will Dow assumed the directorship as of July 1, 2013. Dow is an economist in the School of Public...
Robert Fogel, 86, an economic historian at the University of Chicago who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his studies of slavery in the United States and the role railroads played in the development of the economy, died June 11, 2013 following a brief illness.
The percentage of Americans living in multigenerational households is higher today, at 16%, than it has been since the 1950s, and is expected to increase in the decades ahead. Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that seniors living in households with children under...
