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CHR Seminar: Clark Larsen & Richard Steckel (Ohio State) Health and Aging in the Very Long Term: An Interim Report of the OSU European and Global Health Projects.

October 28, 2011
All Day
Thompson Library, Room 165



The public health community has long been interested in research on the subjects of violence, degenerative conditions, infectious and metabolic diseases, impacts of the environment on health, inequality and health, and childhood origins of adult disease. However, nearly all of the research on these themes has been conducted on relatively modern societies.

This application explains and gives examples of how the diversity of the human experience over the millennia can be brought to bear on modern public health concerns, and how this effort might engage medical researchers. Our specific aims are to: Explain the research value of skeletal remains. Explain the importance of contextual information Apply the study of skeletal remains and their context to public health problems. Engage the medical profession in the research of this application.