Thursday, March 31 / 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM   •   Salon J

Session 56:
The Impact of Healthy Behaviors on Well Being and Longevity

Chair: April A. Greek, Battelle- Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation
Discussant: Sandra L. Reynolds, University of South Florida

  1. Obesity and Central Obesity in Elderly People in Latin America and the Caribbean – Are We Fat? • Flavia Andrade, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  2. Childhood Influences on Diabetes among Older Americans • Latrica E. Best, Pennsylvania State University ; Mark D. Hayward, Pennsylvania State University

  3. The Impact of Health Behaviors and Life Quality on Gender Differences in Mortality • Marc A. Luy, University of Rostock ; Paola Di Giulio, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

  4. Healthy People 2010: The Contribution of Good Health Behaviors to the Length and Quality of Healthy Life Years • Erin B. Reidy, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

Other sessions on Health and Mortality