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14.04.2023

New education programme will contribute to solving demographic challenges

The demographic development is crucial for how we organise society, and from next year a new master’s programme Â鶹ÉçÇø will educate demographers who can contribute to tackling the challenges. It will be Denmark’s only education programme in demography.

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CPop

06.02.2023

Life in a violent country can be years shorter and much less predictable – even for those not involved in conflict

How long people live in violent countries is less predictable and life expectancy for young people can be as much as 14 years shorter compared to peaceful countries, according to a new study today from an international team, led by Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark and Oxford University.

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CPop

11.10.2022

José Manuel Aburto awarded with a prestigious prize

José Manuel Aburto has been awarded with a Silver Medal of The Royal Danish Academy for his cutting-edge research into global health and inequality

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Obituary

03.04.2022

Obituary, James W. Vaupel, 02.05.1945 – 27.03.2022

With deep sadness, we announce that our founding Director, Prof Dr. James W. Vaupel, died on Sunday, March 27th, 2022 after an unexpected and short period of illness.

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CPop

17.03.2022

European Research Council Consolidator Grant goes to Annette Baudisch

Annette Baudisch receives a highly competitive ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to explore and find new patterns in fertility data.

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CPop

01.10.2021

COVID-19 pandemic has led to great life expectancy losses in Europe and overseas but not in Denmark

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe and exceeded those observed around the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in central and Eastern European countries. Nordic Europe, with the exception of Sweden, have seen less dramatic impact of COVID-19 however. A new comparative study by our researchers and co-authors from Oxford University documents the unprecedented life expectancy change by sex and broad age groups published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

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CPop

06.09.2021

New paper in PLOS ONE debunks our conventional beliefs about the primary role of welfare states in Europe

Welfare states mainly redistribute resources between age groups (from those who work to those who do not). Their impact on leveling off socio-economic status inequalities is much smaller in comparison. Pieter Vanhuysse and co-authors remind us that poverty alleviation and inequality mitigation potential is explicitly or implicitly part of most government interventions and that social policies should not be the sole ones that shoulder the blame for imperfect result.

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CPop

12.02.2021

The longevity revolution is going strong

New article about progress in longevity in the past and future. Our James Vaupel, Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher and Francisco Villavicencio address an essential question of how much can human lifespan be extended.

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CPop

03.08.2020

Diversification in causes of death in low-mortality countries

A new paper on variation in causes of death sheds further light on our understanding of population health and ageing. Just published in BMJ Global Health by our Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher and José Manuel Aburto with Alyson van Raalte.

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CPop

22.06.2020

Understanding Physical and Cognitive Health Decline in the Oldest-Old Population

New paper by our Cosmo Strozza and Virginia Zarulli (with Viviana Egidi) on how demographics, socio-economic characteristics and one’s lifestyle affect changes in physical and cognitive health among the oldest old (aged 90+) published in The Journal of Aging Research.

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