Autumn School “Population and Health 2023”
From October 16 to 20, 2023 the International Laboratory for Population and Health of HSE University together with Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center and the Strategic Project «National Centre of Science, Technology and Socio-Economic Foresight», held the Autumn School “Population and Health 2023”. More than 20 students, graduate students and young scientists took part in the school. Over the duration of the school, participants became familiar with approaches to measuring health, sources of data on mortality and health, measures of inequality and current studies, and gained practical experience in calculating various indicators in R. On the last day of school, the participants presented the results of their group projects.
The school was organized within the framework of a grant provided by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Grant Agreement No.: 075-15-2022-325).
School program
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Topic |
Lecturer |
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Population health and the main approaches to its measurement at the population level |
Sergey Timonin (School of Demography, ANU, Australia) |
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Aggregated mortality rates and (H)LE |
Aleksey Shchur (ILPH, HSE University) |
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Calculation of LE and HLE in R |
Aleksey Shchur, Egor Sergeev (ILPH, HSE University) |
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Data sources at the population level |
Dmitry Jdanov (ILPH, HSE University) |
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Inequality measures |
Dmitry Jdanov (ILPH, HSE University) |
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Inequality measures – calculations in R |
Dmitry Jdanov (ILPH, HSE University) |
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Life expectancy and health of the Russian population. What and how has been shown by evidence-based studies? |
Vladimir Shkolnikov (ILPH, HSE University) |
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The impact of alcohol on the health of the Russian population |
Evgeny M. Andreev (ILPH, HSE University) |
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Sample studies of health and aging of the population on the example of SHARE |
Elena Selezneva (ISP, HSE University) |
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Reproductive health of the population (abortion trends, contraception structure, HIV) |
Viktoria I. Sakevich (Institute of Demography, HSE University) |
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Sample studies of reproductive health |
Elena Churilova (ILPH, HSE University) |
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Measurement of reproductive health of the population in the framework of sample studies. |
Elena Churilova (ILPH, HSE University) |
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Methods for assessing excess mortality |
Dmitry Jdanov (ILPH, HSE University) |
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RusSTMF – a new data set for the analysis of mortality in Russia |
Aleksey Shchur (ILPH, HSE University) |
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