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DESCRIPTION:Ashton Verdery (Penn State University) will present “Bereavemen
 t Expectancies:\nIntroduction to a New\nPopulation Health Metric” as part 
 of the CPR Seminar Series. This event is co-sponsored by the Sociology Dep
 artment.&nbsp\;Abstract: Recent years have seen substantial attention to c
 hanges in population health metrics that track mortality sources\, trends\
 , and\ndisparities. Although existing metrics offer important population-l
 evel insights\, they focus on aggregating individualized experiences of\nd
 eath rather than considering its social ramifications\, such as how death 
 affects surviving family members. A growing body of scholarship\non bereav
 ement—the experience of losing close contacts—offers new considerations fo
 r what population health metrics might measure.\nExperiencing bereavement\
 , especially of family members\, is strongly associated with detrimental o
 utcomes\, including poor mental\nhealth\, diminished physical health\, and
  elevated mortality risks. However\, no formalized population health metri
 cs currently capture\nbereavement sources\, trends\, and disparities. We i
 ntroduce the concept of bereavement expectancy\, a new population health m
 etric\nsimilar to life expectancy that summarizes the population-level pro
 bability of losing different types of relatives to different causes of dea
 th\nacross demographic groups. Drawing on recently developed methods\, ber
 eavement expectancies provide point-in-time estimates of the\nbereavement 
 landscape implied by a given demographic regime. To illustrate their utili
 ty\, we calculate bereavement expectancies for 113\ncauses of death in the
  United States\, with a particular focus on racial disparities in exposure
  to familial death from different causes. By linking\nclassic measures of 
 mortality to familial bereavement\, bereavement expectancies offer new ins
 ights into the lived experience of health\ndisparities and their potential
  for intergenerational impacts
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SUMMARY:Bereavement Expectancies: Introduction to a New Population Health M
 etric
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Ashton Verdery (Penn State University) will
  present “Bereavement Expectancies:\nIntroduction to a New\nPopulation Hea
 lth Metric” as part of the CPR Seminar Series. This event is co-sponsored 
 by the Sociology Department.&nbsp\;</p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Recen
 t years have seen substantial attention to changes in population health me
 trics that track mortality sources\, trends\, and\ndisparities. Although e
 xisting metrics offer important population-level insights\, they focus on 
 aggregating individualized experiences of\ndeath rather than considering i
 ts social ramifications\, such as how death affects surviving family membe
 rs. </p><p>A growing body of scholarship\non bereavement—the experience of
  losing close contacts—offers new considerations for what population healt
 h metrics might measure.\nExperiencing bereavement\, especially of family 
 members\, is strongly associated with detrimental outcomes\, including poo
 r mental\nhealth\, diminished physical health\, and elevated mortality ris
 ks. However\, no formalized population health metrics currently capture\nb
 ereavement sources\, trends\, and disparities. We introduce the concept of
  bereavement expectancy\, a new population health metric\nsimilar to life 
 expectancy that summarizes the population-level probability of losing diff
 erent types of relatives to different causes of death\nacross demographic 
 groups. </p><p>Drawing on recently developed methods\, bereavement expecta
 ncies provide point-in-time estimates of the\nbereavement landscape implie
 d by a given demographic regime. To illustrate their utility\, we calculat
 e bereavement expectancies for 113\ncauses of death in the United States\,
  with a particular focus on racial disparities in exposure to familial dea
 th from different causes. By linking\nclassic measures of mortality to fam
 ilial bereavement\, bereavement expectancies offer new insights into the l
 ived experience of health\ndisparities and their potential for intergenera
 tional impacts</p>
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