Archive: Wed Jul 2020

Is social capital valuable in protecting cognitive function in lower-resource settings such as rural South Africa?

July 15, 2020

While theories about the connection between strong social supports and better cognitive health among an aging population are well established in higher resource settings (high income, high education levels), less is known about whether this same pattern…

Older man in South Africa sitting in a field

Narrowing in on disparities in life expectancy across the U.S. with help of census-tract level data

July 15, 2020

A study published in PNAS is the first to look at life-expectancy data at the local, state, and county levels across the U.S. Findings reveal significant disparities at the micro level (census-tract) suggesting that analyzing life expectancy data at the…