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Jersey Liang, Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Comparative aging, health, and health care

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., Sociology, Wayne State University, 1978

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

  • "Assessing cross-cultural comparability in mental health among older adults." Journal of Mental Health and Aging, 2001.
  • "Social exchange and well-being: Is Giving better than receiving?" (with N.M. Krause and J.M. Bennett) Psychology and Aging, 2001.
  • "Transitions in functional status among older people in Wuhan, China: Socioeconomic differentials." (with X. Liu and S. Gu) Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2001.
  • "Socioeconomic Gradient in Old Age Mortality in Wuhan, China." (with J. McCarthy, A. Jain, N. Krause, J.M. Bennett, J.M., and S. Gu) Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 55B:S222-S233, 2000.
  • "Stress, Social Support and Mortality Among Older People in Taiwan." (with J. Bennett, N. Krause, M.C. Chang, H.S. Lin, and Y.L. Chuang) Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 52:983-995, 1999.
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