Examining Risk Factors for Hypertension in Ghana: Evidence from the Global Ageing and Adult Survey • Eric Tenkorang, Memorial University ; Vincent Kuuire, University of Western Ontario ; Isaac Luginaah, University of Western Ontario ; Emmanuel Banchani, Memorial University

Examining Sedentary Work and BMI Prospectively: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) • Tin-chi Lin, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; Theodore Courtney, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; David Lombardi, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; Santosh Verma, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety

Reporting Heterogeneity and Health Disparities across Gender and Education Levels: Evidence from Four Countries • Teresa Molina, University of Southern California

Is Rising Obesity a Causation for Low Testosterone Levels among American Men? • Andrea Werdecker, University of Marburg ; Allan Mazur, Syracuse University ; Ronny Westerman, University of Marburg

Regional Differences in Health Expectancies across the Disablement Process among Older Thais • Benjawan Apinonkul, Mahidol University ; Kusol Soonthorndhada, Mahidol University ; Patama Vapattanawong, Mahidol University ; Wichai Aekplakorn, Mahidol University ; Carol Jagger, Newcastle University

Political Party Affiliation, Political Ideology, and Mortality • Roman Pabayo, University of Nevada, Reno ; Ichiro Kawachi, Harvard University ; Peter Muennig, Columbia University

Losing Jobs and Lighting Up: Employment Experiences and Smoking in the Great Recession • Shelley Golden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Krista Perreira, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Disability in an Elderly Cohort • Lois M. Verbrugge, University of Michigan ; Dustin C. Brown, University of Michigan

Children’s Education, Migration and Parents’ Mortality in Mexico • Jenjira Yahirun, University of Hawaii at Manoa ; Connor Sheehan, University of Texas at Austin ; Mark D. Hayward, University of Texas at Austin

Aging with Disability among Midlife and Older Adults • Lois M. Verbrugge, University of Michigan ; Kenzie Latham, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ; Philippa Clarke, University of Michigan

Gene-Environment Interaction in the Intergenerational Transmission of Health: The Case of Asthma • Owen Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Mobility Limitation in Older Thais: Gender and Geographical Differences in Health Expectancies • Kusol Soonthorndhada, Mahidol University ; Benjawan Apinonkul, Mahidol University ; Patama Vapattanawong, Mahidol University ; Wichai Aekplakorn, Mahidol University ; Carol Jagger, Newcastle University

The Effects of ADHD Treatment Sequencing on Patient Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes • Anna Chorniy, Clemson University

Semen Quality as Predictor of Mortality in a German Andrology Out-Patient Cohort: Biomedical vs. Life-with-Children Pathways of Influence • Ronny Westerman, University of Marburg ; Katharina Belting, University of Marburg ; Sabine Groos, University of Marburg ; Hanna Seydel, University of Marburg ; Walter Krause, University of Marburg ; Ulrich O. Mueller, University of Marburg

Estimating Healthy Volunteer Bias Impact on Mortality in Observational Cohorts - a Projection for the German National Cohort • Ulrich O. Mueller, University of Marburg ; Wolfgang Hoffmann, Universität Greifswald

Educational Differentials in Disability and Welfare Regimes: Are Low-Educated Scandinavians Relatively Less Disadvantaged than Other Europeans? • Emmanuelle Cambois, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Jean-Marie Robine, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) and Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

Disparities in Health and Access to Health Care among Official-Language Minorities in Québec • James Falconer, McGill University ; Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, McGill University

Estimation of Disease Specific Age Pattern of Mortality and Life Expectancy in India • Akansha Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Laishram Ladusingh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Does the Number of Siblings Affect Health? Evidence from Swedish Register Data • Xavier de Luna, Umeå University

The Effect of Number of Siblings on Mortality Risk: Evidence from Swedish Register Data • Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Umeå University

Physical-Psychiatric Comorbidity: Patterns and Explanations for Racial and Ethnic Group Differences • Christy Erving, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Socio-Economic Differentials in Impoverishment Effects of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in China and India: Evidence from WHO SAGE • Kaushalendra Kumar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Ashish Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ; Abhishek Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Joel Negin, University of Sydney ; Somnath Chatterji, World Health Organization (WHO)

Health Expenditure Inequality among Foreign-Born and U.S.-Born Adults: Examining Education Gradients in Health Care and Structural Assimilation Indicators • Stephanie Howe Hasanali, Pennsylvania State University

Differences in the Progression of Disability: A U.S.-Mexico Comparison • Carlos Díaz-Venegas, University of Texas at Galveston ; Timothy A. Reistetter, University of Texas at Galveston

Race/Ethnicity and Nativity Differentials in Self-Care Limitations for Men and Women in Later Life • Jennifer E. Melvin, University of Texas at Austin

Are the Health Returns to Education Changing? An Examination of Education and Self-Rated Health in 1972 and 2011 • Rachel Donnelly, University of Texas at Austin

Where Do Older Adults with Disabilities Live? Distribution of Disability by Household Composition and Housing Type in the U.S. • Carrie Henning-Smith, University of Minnesota

How Much Do Mortality Differentials Affect an Accuracy of a Population Projection? Evidence from a Projection for Japanese Municipalities • Keita Suga, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan

The Educational Shock: A Natural Experiment Enlightening Mechanisms behind Educational Inequalities in Young-Adult Mortality between the 1990s and the 2000s in Belgium • Hannelore De Grande, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Patrick Deboosere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Hadewijch Vandenheede, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Forecasting Period and Cohort Mortality Trends • Christina Bohk, University of Rostock

Pace and Shape of Causes of Death • Marcus Ebeling, University of Rostock and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Max Planck Odense Center ; Annette Baudisch, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

The Role of Initial Mortality Conditions and Diverging Mortality Trends in Explaining Mortality Divergence • Alyson A. van Raalte, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and New Economic School, Russia ; Dmitri A. Jdanov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and New Economic School, Russia

“When You’re in a Crisis Like That, You Don’t Want People to Know”: Mortgage Strain, Stigma and Mental Health • Danya Keene, Yale University ; Sarah K. Cowan, New York University (NYU) ; Amy Baker, University of Wyoming

BMI but Not Other Cardiometabolic Risks Associated with WTFC: Findings from the WFHN • Emily O'Donnell, Harvard University ; Maria Glymour, University of California, San Francisco and Harvard University ; Laura Kubzansky, Harvard University

Inter-Cohort Variation in the Consequences of U.S. Military Service on Men's Body Mass Index Trajectories in Mid- to Late-Life • Janet M. Wilmoth, Syracuse University ; Andrew S. London, Syracuse University ; Christine Himes, Illinois Institute of Technology

Race and Rural: An Investigation of the Rural Mortality Penalty • Lynne Cossman, West Virginia University ; Wesley James, University of Memphis ; Tony Lemonis, University of Memphis

Risk of Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Examination of the Separate and Combined Effects of Race, Gender, and Poverty Status • Lori R. Wallace, Yale University ; Rachel Snow, University of Michigan ; Arline Geronimus, University of Michigan

Today’s Decisions, Tomorrow’s Outcomes: Does Self-Control Explain the Educational Health Gradient? • Christopher Holmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Regional Differentials in Disability Free Life Expectancy in Japan: Trends and Changes between 2000 and 2010 • Yuka Minagawa, Sophia University ; Yasuhiko Saito, Nihon University

Do Poor Health Behaviors Amplify or Diminish the Association between Stress and Mental Health? An Empirical Examination of the Environmental Affordance Model • Andrea K. Henderson, University of South Carolina ; Adrianne Dues, University of South Carolina ; Calley Fisk, University of South Carolina

Cardiometabolic Disease Risk and HIV Status in Rural South Africa: Establishing a Baseline • F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, University of the Witwatersrand ; Brian Houle, Australian National University ; Margaret Thorogood, University of Warwick ; Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, University of the Witwatersrand ; Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, University of the Witwatersrand ; Jill Williams, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Jane Menken, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Stephen Tollman, University of the Witwatersrand

Social Disparities in Telomere Length among Older U.S. Adults: Differences by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Age • Lauren Brown, University of Southern California ; Belinda Needham, University of Michigan ; Jennifer A. Ailshire, University of Southern California

Strategies for Sustaining Facility-Based Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Interventions in Resource-Limited Settings: Findings from a Survey of ART Clinic Managers in Uganda (2004-2013) • Henry Zakumumpa, Makerere University ; Omar Galarraga, Brown University

Health Insurance and Health Care among Mid-Aged and Older Chinese: Evidence from the National Baseline Survey of CHARLS • Xiaoyan Lei, Peking University ; John Strauss, University of Southern California ; Chuanchuan Zhang, Peking University ; Yaohui Zhao, Peking University

Forecasting Health Expectancy for Old Adults in the United States Using Cohort Smoking and Obesity History • Bochen Cao, University of Pennsylvania

The Decline of Smoking in China from 1989 to 2009: Shifting Composition or Behavior? • Weixiang Luo, Fudan University

Shocks, Health, and Transfers: Social Exchange as Social Insurance in Rural Malawi • Joshua Stroud, Tulane University ; Philip A. Anglewicz, Tulane University

Time Trends by Sex in the Misreporting of Body Weight • Amelia R. Branigan, Cornell University

Revisiting the Long-Term Health Effect of China’s 1959-1961 Famine: An Instrumental Variable Approach • Hongwei Xu, University of Michigan

Lost to Care in Bexar: What Role Do Individual and Contextual Factors Play in HIV/AIDS Patient Retention in a Majority Hispanic Community? • Heidy Colon-Lugo, University of Texas at San Antonio ; Susanne Schmidt, University of Texas at San Antonio ; Roberto Villarreal, University Health System ; P. Johnelle Sparks, University of Texas at San Antonio

The Importance of Gender in the Relationship between Type of Chronic Conditions and Spouse's Depressive Symptoms • Mieke B. Thomeer, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Environmental Exposures and Hematologic Cancers in Upstate New York • Danielle Rhubart, Pennsylvania State University

Effects of Spousal Education on Mortality among Older Men and Women in China • Ye Luo, Clemson University ; Zhenmei Zhang, Michigan State University

Forecasting Educational Differences in Life Expectancy • Frederik Peters, University of Rostock

Estimating Prescription Painkiller Mortality in the United States • Chris Tencza, University of Pennsylvania

Forecasting Life Expectancy in the Presence of Structural Breaks • Frederik Peters, University of Rostock

HIV/AIDS Treatment Availability and the Decision to Test: Evidence from Malawi • Nicholas Stacey, Brown University

Years of Life Lost in the War against Drug Cartels in Mexico during the Government of Calderon 2006-2012 • Alejandro Aguirre, El Colegio de México ; Fortino Vela Peón, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco ; Argelia Gallegos, Delegación Tlalpan

Pet Ownership and Access as Predictors of Self-Reported Health in a National Sample of U.S. Elders • Laura A. Sanchez, Bowling Green State University ; Gwendolyn Zugarek, Bowling Green State University

The Effect of Food Environment on Weight Change: Does Residential Mobility Matter? • Barbara Laraia, University of California, San Francisco ; Janelle Downing, University of California, Berkeley ; Tara Zhang, University of California, Berkeley ; William H. Dow, University of California, Berkeley ; Maggi Kelly, University of California, Berkeley ; Samuel Blanchard, University of California, Berkeley ; Nancy Adler, University of California, San Francisco ; Dean Schillinger, University of California, San Francisco ; Margaret Wharton, Kaiser Permanente ; Andrew Karter, Kaiser Permanente

The Disability Gap in Time Use in the United States • Carrie L. Shandra, Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY)

Overweight, Obesity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Early Adulthood • Kelly Balistreri, Bowling Green State University ; Holly R. Fee, Bowling Green State University

An Intersectional Approach to Gender and Preventive Healthcare Seeking: Engagement with Biomedical HIV Prevention among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men • Morgan M. Philbin, Columbia University ; Jennifer S. Hirsch, Columbia University ; Patrick Wilson, Columbia University ; Richard Parker, Columbia University

Declines in Self-Reported Disability in the Russian Federation: Fewer but Further Marginalized? • Cynthia Buckley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Partnership Trajectories and Biomarkers in Later Life: A Life Course Approach • Maja Djundeva, University of Groningen ; Emily Grundy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

How Does Parent-Child Relationship Moderate the Effect of Childhood Socioeconomic Status on Adult Health? • Kiwoong Park, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)

The Age-Pattern of Sex Differences in Mortality Improvement • Benjamin Seligman, Stanford University ; Gabi Greenberg, Stanford University ; Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University

Disparities in Health Insurance in the Wake of the Great Recession • Amy Steinweg, U.S. Census Bureau

Application of a Classification Method for Studies of Allostatic Load • Sun Y. Jeon, Utah State University ; Eric N. Reither, Utah State University

Cause-Specific Senescence: Classifying Causes of Death According to the Rate of Aging • Carlo G. Camarda, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Marketa Pechholdova, University of Economics, Prague (VSE) ; France Meslé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

A Puff of Smoke: Medical Marijuana Laws and Tobacco Use • Anna Choi, Cornell University ; Dhaval Dave, Bentley University

Effects of Growing Up in Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods on Racial Disparities in Obesity in Early Adulthood • Nicole D. Kravitz-Wirtz, University of Washington

Differences in Cause-Specific Lifespan Distributions: The Confounding Effect of Age • Viorela Diaconu, Université de Montréal ; Robert R. Bourbeau, Université de Montréal ; Nadine Ouellette, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Carlo G. Camarda, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

Selection vs. Protection, Composition vs. Context: Identifying the Mechanisms of Favorable Barrio “Effects” on Mexican-American Health • Fernando Riosmena, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Emily Steiner, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Jamie L. Humphrey, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Elisabeth D. Root, University of Colorado, Boulder

The Statistics of Health and Longevity: A Dynamic Analysis of Prevalence Data • Virginia Zarulli, Max Planck Odense Center

Does Inflammation Predict Cognitive Decline in Older Adults? Evidence from Taiwan • Megan Todd, Princeton University

Does BMI Generated by Self-Reported Height and Weight Measure Up in Older Adults? Associations between Self-Report and Measurement in Six Middle Income Countries from the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) • Theresa E. Gildner, University of Oregon ; Tyler Barrett, University of Oregon ; James J. Snodgrass, University of Oregon

An Early-Life Conditions Scale, and Applications to Suicide and All-Cause Mortality • Michael S. Hollingshaus, University of Utah

Caregiving Patterns to Older Adults in India • Allen P. Ugargol, University of Groningen and Institute for Social and Economic Change, India ; Inge Hutter, University of Groningen ; K. S. James, Institute for Social and Economic Change, India ; Ajay Bailey, University of Groningen

Time Trends of Mortality and Morbidity for U.S. Older Adults • Igor Akushevich, Duke University ; Arseniy Yashkin, Duke University ; Julia Kravchenko, Duke University ; Frank Sloan, Duke University ; Anatoliy I. Yashin, Duke University

Military Service and Smoking in a Cohort of Northern Vietnamese Older Adults • Kim Korinek, University of Utah ; Peter Loebach, University of Utah ; Ha N. Trinh, University of Utah

Systemic Inflammation among Older Adults: Differences by Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Age • Uchechi Mitchell, University of Southern California ; Carol S. Aneshensel, University of California, Los Angeles

Chronic Inflammation at the Intersection of Race and Ethnicity, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status: The Mediating Effects of Proximate Risk Factors as Composite Lifestyles • Aliza D. Richman, West Chester University ; Elizabeth H. Baker, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Examining the Differences in Health Service Utilisation between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants in Australia • Santosh Jatrana, Deakin University Australia

Placing a Health Equity Lens on Non-Community Diseases in Ghana • Helena Dagadu, Vanderbilt University

A Propensity Score Approach to Examining Ethnic Density, Immigrant Concentration, and Latino Health Risks • Kelin Li, California State University, Sacramento ; Ming Wen, University of Utah ; Kevin Henry, Rutgers University