IGF::OT::IGF: Advances in Biodemography: Cross-Species Comparisons of Social Envi

NIA已经与国家科学院人口委员会签订了一份合同，执行一项利用2012财年支持制定的项目计划，通过在概念上将生物人口学领域扩大到包括社会环境、社会行为及其对健康、寿命和生活史的影响的跨物种比较来促进和推进生物人口学领域。生物人口学整合了人口学和生物学的理论和方法，为理解老龄化对健康和寿命的影响提供了一种创新的工具。NIH资助的这一领域的赠款使用了观察和实验方法来扩大对生活史和衰老速度的理解，包括生育率和死亡率之间的权衡，代际转移在塑造人类和其他社会性动物的生活史方面的作用，以及晚年脆弱和死亡率方面的性别和种群差异。20年前的一系列NAS研讨会对鼓励这一跨学科领域起到了重要作用。2013财年计划要求在2014年4月8日至9日由Maxine Weinstein主持一次研讨会，并出版一份总结研讨会的出版物。

NIA has entered into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences¿ Committee on Population to execute a project plan, developed using FY2012 support, to promote and advance the field of biodemography by expanding it conceptually to include cross-species comparisons of social environments, social behaviors, and their effects on health, longevity, and life histories. Biodemography, the integration of demographic and biological theory and methods, provides an innovative tool for understanding the impact of aging on health and longevity. NIH-funded grants in this field have used both observational and experimental approaches to expand understanding of life histories and the rate of senescence, including trade-offs between fertility and mortality, the role of intergenerational transfers in shaping life histories from humans and other social animals, and sex and population differentials in late-life frailty and mortality rates. A series of NAS workshops dating back twenty years has been instrumental in encouraging this interdisciplinary field. The FY2013 plan calls for a workshop, chaired by Maxine Weinstein on April 8-9th 2014 and a publication summarizing the workshop.