Demography

New essay collection explores the ways Jordan's Peele's 2017 film "Get Out" "revolutionizes the gothic and horror tradition at the same time that it unmasks the particular politics of race in the early twenty-first-century United…

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Marked racial disparities exist in confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, investigators say, and highlight urgent needs to ensure adequate testing and treatment are available to…

Promising results warrants further investigationCredit: Flinders University Medical researchers in the UK and Australia have identified a new marker which could support the search for novel preventative and therapeutic treatments…

Researchers investigate factors and consequences for refugees and host society Due to border closures in the wake of the corona crisis, the arrival of refugees in Europe has temporarily dipped. However, worldwide numbers of refugees have…

The Gerontological Society of America's highly cited, peer-reviewed journals are continuing to publish scientific articles on COVID-19, and all are free to access. The following were published between June 7 and July 4; all are free to…

Credit: Akai Kaeru, LLC STONY BROOK, NY, July 8, 2020 - The task of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic nationwide and predicting where cases will spike next and which areas may have high mortality rates remains daunting for…

Discrimination against people perceived to have COVID-19 increased from March to April 2020 Discrimination against people thought to be infected with coronavirus was experienced by a rising number of United States residents, particularly…

Obese people among black and minority ethnic communities (BME) are at around two times higher the risk of contracting COVID-19 than white Europeans, a study conducted by a team of Leicester researchers has found. Previous research has…

Long distance runnersCredit: Lieberman, Daniel E. "Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture," just published in Current Anthropology (v61, no. 3 (June 2020): 356-379) studies the Tarahumara Native Americans of northern Mexico. For over a…

250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had contracted syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated. The same study shows that Georgian Londoners were over twice as likely to be treated for the disease as people living…

New research from The University of Texas at Dallas suggests food deserts might be more prevalent in the U.S. than the numbers reported in government estimates. In a feasibility study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health,…

UC Riverside study exposes disparities in health care access in rural Southern CaliforniaCredit: Center for Healthy Communities, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A University of California, Riverside, study that sought to…

Real world mobile phone data suggests that individuals reduced their movement in all 25 most affected US counties 6-29 days before state-level stay-at-home policies were implemented. Real-world mobile phone data suggests a decline in the…

MADISON, Wis. -- Showing people how their peers feel about diversity in their community can make their actions more inclusive, make members of marginalized groups feel more like they belong, and even help close racial achievement…

What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association between the stage of breast cancer at diagnosis and the insurance status, age and race/ethnicity of patients before and after the expansion of Medicaid under the…

Study uses statewide traffic data from the Florida department of transportation Credit: Florida Atlantic University It's not just health, social and economic consequences from COVID-19 that have impacted the world. Travel…

The fact that people are living longer lives represents one of the crowning achievements of the last century, but also requires careful planning on the part of governments. A new IIASA study investigated the prevalence of activity…

The latest issue of the journal Public Policy & Aging Report (PP&AR) from The Gerontological Society of America shows how aging is reshaping politics today in unprecedented ways, and how it will continue to do so for years…

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University While counties in populous metropolitan Atlanta had the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the initial weeks following Georgia's first reported case, it was rural…

Mobile-phone access is associated with increased use of contraception, lower gender inequality, and lower maternal and child mortality By giving women access to information they otherwise wouldn't have, mobile phones are…