OPP-PRF: Demographic, Epidemiologic, and Social Consequences of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska

这项生物文化研究探讨了1918年阿拉斯加流感大流行的长期人口，流行病学和社会后果。该研究将使用混合方法，评估大流行对结核病和其他呼吸道疾病等感染流行地区的预期寿命和生存率的影响。该项目还将研究灾难性死亡事件如何影响大流行结束后几十年的健康，人口和社会。该项目采用混合方法，将1910-1939年的定量人口数据与定性档案记录相结合。将使用主要死因（呼吸系统疾病、肺结核、癌症、心血管疾病、胃肠道感染等）的多重递减寿命表分析人口影响。来检测预期寿命和存活率的变化。将进行生存分析，以评估各地区之间以及男性和女性之间的显著差异。最后，定性档案数据的专题分析将确定与流行病、健康、生存和社会组织有关的主要专题。该项目由美国国家科学基金会博士后研究奖学金项目、激励竞争性研究的既定项目（EPSCoR）和北极社会科学项目共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This biocultural research explores the long-term demographic, epidemiologic, and social consequences of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Alaska. Using mixed methods, the research will evaluate pandemic impacts on life expectancy and survivorship in a region where infections such as tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases were prevalent. The proposed work will also investigate how catastrophic mortality events affect health, demography, and society in the decades after the pandemic ended.This project applies a mixed-methods approach, integrating quantitative demographic data with qualitative archival records from 1910–1939. Demographic impacts will be analyzed using multiple decrement life tables for major causes of death (respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal infections, etc.) to detect changes in life expectancy and survivorship. Survival analyses will be performed to assess significant differences among regions and between males and females. Finally, thematic analyses of qualitative archival data will identify major themes related to the pandemic, health, subsistence, and social organization. This project is jointly funded by the OPP Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and the Arctic Social Sciences Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.