This is a continuation project to implement a second wave of the Puerto Rican Elderly Health Study (PREHCO). We propose to field a second round with survivors of the sample interviewed in the first wave. In this second wave we plan to collect information on changes in health, functional limitations, depression, cognition and mortality as well as on family and residential arrangement transitions, familial and non familial transfers, fluctuations in income and assets and, finally, labor force status changes. The study is also designed to link data from the two waves with the National Death Index, to the registry of birth certificates maintained in municipalities, to the 2000 Census files, and to ancillary information from the Department of Health and Human Services. Analytically, the project is motivated by four problem areas. All four have been the foundation of PREHCO since its inception but acquire renewed saliency in light of preliminary analyses of the first wave of data: (a) investigation of uniformly high age and sex-specific prevalence of obesity and self-reported diabetes (type II); (b) investigation of race differentials in measures of health and functional status, (c) assessment of conjectures posing a relation between health and functional limitations of older cohorts and their early childhood experiences of malnutrition and disease; (d) health, functional status and mortality differentials across socioeconomic levels and among individuals with and without migrant experiences in the US. ? ?
| Palloni, Alberto; Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram (2017) Discrete Barker Frailty and Warped Mortality Dynamics at Older Ages. Demography 54:655-671 |
| Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram; Palloni, Alberto; Riosmena, Fernando et al. (2016) SES Gradients Among Mexicans in the United States and in Mexico: A New Twist to the Hispanic Paradox? Demography 53:1555-1581 |
| Palloni, Alberto; Novak, Beatriz; Pinto-Aguirre, Guido (2015) The enduring effects of smoking in Latin America. Am J Public Health 105:1246-53 |
| González-González, César; Palloni, Alberto; Wong, Rebeca (2015) Mortality and its association with chronic and infectious diseases in Mexico: A panel data analysis of the elderly. Salud Publica Mex 57 Suppl 1:S39-45 |
| Palloni, Alberto; Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram; Novak, Beatriz et al. (2015) Adult obesity, disease and longevity in Mexico. Salud Publica Mex 57 Suppl 1:S22-30 |
| Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram; Drumond-Andrade, Flávia Cristina; Riosmena, Fernando (2015) Contribution of socioeconomic factors and health care access to the awareness and treatment of diabetes and hypertension among older Mexican adults. Salud Publica Mex 57 Suppl 1:S6-14 |
| Palloni, Alberto; Souza, Laetícia (2013) THE FRAGILITY OF THE FUTURE AND THE TUG OF THE PAST: LONGEVITY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. Demogr Res 29:543-578 |
| Rivas-Tumanyan, Sona; Campos, Maribel; Zevallos, Juan C et al. (2013) Periodontal disease, hypertension, and blood pressure among older adults in Puerto Rico. J Periodontol 84:203-11 |
| Aguilar, Maria L; Psoter, Walter J; Montero, Mauricio et al. (2013) The quality of removable prostheses in dentate, community-dwelling elderly residing in Puerto Rico. J Prosthodont 22:556-60 |
| Palloni, Alberto; Thomas, Jason R (2013) Estimation of covariate effects with current status data and differential mortality. Demography 50:521-44 |
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