Session 33:
Risk Factors Associated with Adult Mortality
Chair: Richard Miech, University of Colorado at Denver
Discussant: Bridget K. Gorman, Rice University
Discussant: Michael L. Spittel, Eunice Kennedy Schriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH
The Functional Form of the Relationship between Educational Attainment and All-Cause Adult Mortality Risks in the United States Jennifer Karas Montez, University of Texas at Austin ; Robert A. Hummer, University of Texas at Austin
Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Adult Mortality in a Middle-Income Country: The Costa Rican Longitudinal Mortality Study 1984-2007 William H. Dow, University of California, Berkeley ; Luis Rosero-Bixby, Universidad de Costa Rica
Depression and Mortality Risk among Older Adults Stacie Carr, Princeton University
Suffocation Deaths among the Elderly Ellen A. Kramarow, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC ; Judi Wong, Drexel University ; Li Hui Chen, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC ; Margaret Warner, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC
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