Mark D. Hayward

About

Mark D. Hayward is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, holding the Centennial Commission Professorship in the Liberal Arts. His research focuses on the life course origins of health disparities, morbidity, and mortality, with a particular emphasis on biodemography. His work explores how various social, biological, and environmental factors across the lifespan influence health outcomes and contribute to disparities.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Medicine
• Demography
• Economics
• Computer Science
• Economic growth
• Geography
• Demographic economics
• Environmental health

Selected publications

• US State Policies, Politics, and Life Expectancy

  Milbank Quarterly · 2020 · 273 citations

  Policy Points Changes in US state policies since the 1970s, particularly after 2010, have played an important role in the stagnation and recent decline in US life expectancy. Some US state policies appear to be key levers for improving life expectancy, such as policies on tobacco, labor, immigration, civil rights, and the environment. US life expectancy is estimated to be 2.8 years longer among women and 2.1 years longer among men if all US states enjoyed the health advantages of states with mor…

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• Trends in U.S. Population Health: The Central Role of Policies, Politics, and Profits

  Journal of Health and Social Behavior · 2021 · 62 citations

  Recent trends in U.S. health have been mixed, with improvements among some groups and geographic areas alongside declines among others. Medical sociologists have contributed to the understanding of those disparate trends, although important questions remain. In this article, we review trends since the 1980s in key indicators of U.S. health and weigh evidence from the last decade on their causes. To better understand contemporary trends in health, we propose that commonly used conceptual framewor…

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• Trends in Dementia Prevalence, Incidence, and Mortality in the United States (2000–2016)

  Journal of Aging and Health · 2021-07-07 · 49 citations

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  Objectives: The prevalence of dementia has declined in the United States; how this parallels to changes in incidence and mortality, and how improvements in educational attainment may have influences these trends, is not known. Methods: Using the Health and Retirement Study (2000–2016), we estimated logistic regression models to examine trends in dementia prevalence and incidence, and mortality for those with and without dementia. Results: The relative decline was about 2.4% per year for dementia…

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• Socioeconomic status across the life course and dementia-status life expectancy among older Americans

  SSM - Population Health · 2021-09-01 · 42 citations

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  This study examines how socioeconomic status (SES) across the life course is associated with individuals’ lifetime dementia experience – the years of life persons can expect to live and without with dementia. Conceptually, dementia-free life expectancy reflects the ability to postpone dementia onset while dementia life expectancy reflects the average lifetime period with the condition. How SES across the life course contributes to dementia-status life expectancy is the focus of this study. We as…

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• Prelacteal feeding practices in Pakistan: a mixed-methods study

  International Breastfeeding Journal · 2020 · 42 citations

  BACKGROUND: Prelacteal feeding, the feeding a newborn substances or liquids before breastfeeding, is a common cultural practice in Pakistan, but is associated with neonatal morbidity and mortality because it delays early initiation of breastfeeding. In this study, we sought to examine the social and cultural factors associated with prelacteal feeding in Pakistan. METHODS: This mixed-method study used data from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2012-13. Findings from the survey we…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01AG004915

  NIH · $502k · 1989

• Center for Advancing Sociodemographic and Economic Study of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (CeASES-ADRD)

  NIH · $8.8M · 2020–2026

• Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America Renewal

  NIH · $4.8M · 2014–2029

Frequent coauthors

• Eileen M. Crimmins

  University of Southern California

  30 shared

• Carlos F. Mendes de Leon

  Georgetown University

  25 shared

• Susan A. Everson‐Rose

  University of Minnesota

  25 shared

• Lisa L. Barnes

  Rush University Medical Center

  25 shared

• Robert S. Wilson

  Rush University Medical Center

  25 shared

• Denis A. Evans

  25 shared

• Jennifer Karas Montez

  Syracuse University

  23 shared

• Anna Zajacova

  16 shared

Labs

• Immigration StudiesPI

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