Samuel h. preston biography

  • Samuel Hulse Preston is an American demographer and sociologist.
  • Samuel Hulse Preston (born December 2, 1943) is an American demographer and sociologist.
  • Samuel Preston's major research interest is in the health of populations.

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    Samuel H. Preston

    Samuel Hulse Preston (born December 2, 1943) is an American demographer and sociologist.

    He is one of the leading demographers in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1968. Preston is a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the former dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1987.[1] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986 and the American Philosophical Society in 1992.[2][3]

    The Preston curve is named after him.[citation needed] Preston's major research interest is in the health of populations. He has written primarily about mortality trends and patterns in large aggregates, including 20th-century mortality transitions and black/white differentials in the United States.

    Publications

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    • Preston, Samuel H., & Michael Haines. (1991), Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century America., Princeton: Princeton University Press: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
    • Gribble, James N., & Preston, Samuel H. (editors) (1993), The Epidemiological transition:

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      American Longevity: Past, Present, and Future

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      How long we live, and how long members of our families and social groups live, is extraordinarily important to us. It's not a subject of daily discussion, but it would be if we were threatened with a return to earlier conditions. Unfortunately, the subject of longevity falls between the cracks of academe and has received far less attention than it warrants. We are all aware, at least dimly, that people are living longer than they used to. The numbers are impressive: at the turn of the century, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 48 years; it's now 76 years. Since life expectancy during the Stone Age was in the range of 20 to 30 years, it is clear that a majority of the cumulative advances have taken place in the short span of the 20th century. Without the improvements during this century, half of us would not e here: a quarter of the present U.S. population would have been born and died, and another quarter would never have been born because of the pre-reproductive death of a mother, grandmother, or great grandmother. In developing countries, nearly all of the improvements in longevity have occurred in this century. How these gains were achieved has important implications for public policy; h

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      IUSSP Laureate 1998. Samuel H. Preston

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