Assistant professor, Health & Society, Wageningen University
I have degrees in economics, health sciences and history, although my research is most at home in health demography. In my research, I explore long-run changes in health and mortality, and use statistical and computational methods to do so. My Ph.D. project (alongside Bjorn Quanjer) focused on explaining how the Dutch have grown to be the tallest nation in the world, and what consequences this might have for social, economic and health outcomes.
How the Dutch became the tallest nation on Earth
Jul 04, 2024 06:27 am UTC| Insights & Views
Studying the history of a country or regions physical health is challenging, as consistently collected indicators of health are hard to come by. However, our recent study looked at the clear link between a populations...
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