Dr. Foxen discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Latino communities, why life expectancy for Latinos is expected to drop by three years, and the challenges in collecting and tracking national and state COVID-19 data by race and ethnicity.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
(2012) Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and lung disease are no longer only a problem for wealthy countries. These former “diseases of affluence” are now the leading causes of death in all the world’s regions except sub-Saharan Africa (WHO 2011a.)
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
(2019) Smoking and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable death, disability, and chronic disease in the United States.
(2001) The people of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long played an integral, if sometimes volatile, role in the history of human civilization. MENA is one of the cradles of civilization and of urban culture. Three of the world's major religions originated in the region — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Universities existed in MENA long before they did in Europe.
In 2008, 36 million people died from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Deaths related to these chronic diseases are increasing, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
(2011) In her new book, The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security, author Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba argues that the future of warfare will be shaped by demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration.
(2009) The U.S. population is projected to increase over the next four decades, but according to new supplemental projections from the U.S. Census Bureau, the rate of increase depends largely on future trends in international migration.