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Agostino Cristofalo

@agostino.bsky.social

PhD in Demography at Sapienza University of Rome. Inequalities in health, cognition, mortality. EDSD 22-23

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Giacomo Lanfiuti Baldi@giacomolanfiuti.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The last chapter of my PhD thesis is out, just a few days before my defense 🎓 Read the new paper in Population Health Metrics with Andrea Nigri, Sergi Trias-Llimós (@sergitl.bsky.social), and Elisabetta Barbi on Deaths of Despair in Italy: 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The decline of ‘Deaths of Despair’ in Italy: unveiling this phenomenon in a new context - Population Health Metrics

Background The term “Deaths of Despair” (DoD) refers to mortality due to alcohol consumption, drug use, and suicides. While extensively studied in the United States, where these deaths have markedly i...

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Agostino Cristofalo@agostino.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Life course folks, you may be interested in our brand new article (w @etrappolini.bsky.social) on housing tenure trajectories and health in later life across Europe 🏡 open access on ALCR www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Housing tenure trajectories and health in later life across Europe

Previous research has shown that standard patterns of work and family trajectories over the life course are associated with better health in later lif…

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UCL News@uclnews.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Quitting smoking in middle age or later is linked to slower cognitive decline over the long term, according to a new study led by Dr Mikaela Bloomberg @mapbloom.bsky.social that suggests, for cognitive health, "it is never too late to quit" @ucliehc.bsky.social @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social

Quitting smoking, even late in life, linked to slower cognitive decline

Quitting smoking in middle age or later is linked to slower age-related cognitive decline over the long term, according to a new study by UCL researchers.

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Giacomo Lanfiuti Baldi@giacomolanfiuti.bsky.social · last yr.

New publication! We introduce a Skellam-based age-period model to capture and forecast mortality gaps between populations — an alternative to modeling rates separately. Tested on causes of deaths, but extensible beyond. Check it out 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0282...

Age-Period Modeling of Mortality Gaps: The Cases of Cancer and Circulatory Diseases - Giacomo Lanfiuti Baldi, Andrea Nigri, Han Lin Shang, 2025

Understanding and modeling mortality patterns, especially differences in mortality rates between populations, is vital for demographic analysis and public healt...

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Agostino Cristofalo@agostino.bsky.social · last yr.

My (very first) article is now available on SSM🎉 We investigated the extent to which the well-known educational disparities in dementia incidence persisted in subsequent healthcare utilization after dementia onset. Don't just go to read it, run!🏃

Educational disparities in dementia incidence and healthcare utilization: evidence from a cohort study in Italy

While educational disparities in dementia incidence are well-known, whether and to what extent they persist beyond dementia onset is less explored. In…

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Hampton Gaddy@hggaddy.bsky.social · last yr.

A student yesterday: "Not even ChatGPT understands Lexis diagrams..." I guess the spatial logic of triangles, squares, and parallelograms trips it up? I just asked it to explain and draw a Lexis parallelogram, and yeah, it didn't go great. Maybe a tip for testing demographic reasoning these days!

ChatGPT's attempt to draw a "diagram to illustrate what a Lexis parallelogram is"
Dr. Tom Frieden@drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 2y ago

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.