Danan Gu

Dados Biográficos

ID273252
NOMEDanan Gu
PRENOMESDanan
SOBRENOMEGu
ASSINATURAGU D
AFILIAÇÕESUnited Nations Population Fund
ORCID0000-0001-5228-8980
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS69
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES395
TOTAL COMO AUTOR67
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2002
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H13

  • Realizing the promise of youth

    Open AccessDanan GuARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    AccScience Publishing is a publishing company based in Singapore. We have in our portfolio a range of high-quality, open-access, peer-reviewed journals and books from a broad spectrum of science, technology, biomedicine, engineering, education, social sciences and many more

  • Accessibility of hospice care services in Shanghai

    Open AccessLingchen Liu, Yujing Wu et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2026Referências: 1

    Shanghai's dense hospice network and advanced transport infrastructure ensure near-universal access in central districts. Yet, persistent inequalities in suburban and rural areas underscore the need for equitable end-of-life care amid rapid population aging. Expanding facility placement, strengthening home- and community-based hospice models, and leveraging tele-hospice platforms are essential to meeting the city's growing age-related care demand…

  • From Digital Divide to Digital Equality

    Open AccessYi Man Flora Mo, Yuanying Liu et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2025Referências: 3

    Objectives The role of information and communication technology (ICT) in later life has received substantial attention, with continuous studies focusing on the digital divide for older persons. Literature usually defines and measures the digital divide by focusing on ICT accessibility, skills, and outcomes. This study attempted to expand this framework by further incorporating the role of learning for a more comprehensive perspective of understan…

  • Dynamic gender differences in reporting work limitations

    Open AccessNa Yin, Danan GuARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    The gender gap in self-reported work limitations among individuals aged 50 – 70 has persisted over time and across countries. We investigate whether this gap reflects actual differences in work limitations or variations in reporting styles between genders. Using the anchoring vignettes approach and leveraging vignette survey data from the United States and Europe, we examine how men and women assess the severity of identical work limitations rela…

  • Need for social services among disabled Chinese older adults in urban and rural areas

    Open AccessHaiyan Zhu, Danan GuARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Using data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey from 2005 to 2018, we examined the need for social services among disabled older adults in rural and urban China. Social services were classified into two types: Basic care and social connection. The Andersen model and ordered logistic regressions were employed to estimate how predisposing, enabling, and need factors are associated with the need for social services. We found signif…

  • Migrants' reference group selection

    Zhenxiang Chen, Danan GuARTICLEChinese Sociological Review2025Referências: 61

  • Self-rated health and interviewer-rated health

    Open AccessHaiyan Zhu, Qiushi Feng et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Interviewer-rated health (IRH) and self-rated health (SRH) have strong and independent predictive power for mortality, but their relative predictive power has not been examined among subpopulations. Because individuals from different subpopulations have distinct views, understandings, and judgments about health that influence their criteria and referents for SRH, we examine whether IRH is a valid predictor of mortality within subpopulations, whic…

  • Bridging the Access Gap

    Open AccessKun Wang, Xiayu Summer Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2024Referências: 1

    Objectives: This study examines the digital divide between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White older adults in the United States from 2011 to 2021, using an intersectionality perspective. Methods: Eleven waves of data from the National Health and Aging Trend were analyzed through multilevel logistic regression, focusing on the intersection between race/ethnicity and time (measured by survey waves) within gender, education, and income subgroups. The d…

  • Older adults' online activities and cognition

    Open AccessKun Wang, Xiayu Summer Chen et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Citada por: 2Referências: 49

  • Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy at birth in Asia

    Open AccessYan Mo, Yi Man Flora Mo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic had significantly affected e 0 of Asian populations, and most contribution to the reduction of e 0 came from the three older age groups, 60-79 years, 80 + years, and 45-59 years, with great variations across countries/territories. Our findings could have important implications for development of more resilient public health systems in Asian societies with better policy interventions for vulnerable demographic groups

  • The Covid-19 pandemic and life expectancy among older adults in Asian countries

    Qiushi Feng, Danan GuARTICLEAsian Population Studies2023Referências: 6

    Millions of lives in Asia were lost in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, causing a reduction of 1.66 years in life expectancy at birth (e0) in 2019–2021 and a reduction of 1.41 years in life expectancy at age 60 (e60). Using the World Population Prospects 2022, we decomposed mortality changes at older ages (ages 60+) that contributed to Asia’s reduction in e0 and e60. Overall, changes in mortality at older ages contributed to more than 70 per cent o…

  • Reciprocal associations between social media use and self-perception of aging among older adults

    Open AccessKun Wang, Danan GuARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Citada por: 2Referências: 58

  • Widowhood and Mortality Among Chinese Older Adults in Singapore

    Open AccessJon Barrenetxea, Qiushi Feng et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2022Citada por: 2Referências: 10

    Widowhood was associated with increased mortality risk, particularly among recently widowed men and long-term widowed women. Having adequate social support could attenuate the adverse effects of widowhood among older adults

  • Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

    Open AccessDanan Gu, Matthew E DupreBOOKEncyclopedia of Gerontology and…2021

  • Major Trends in Population Growth Around the World

    Open AccessDanan Gu, New York USA United Nations Population Division et al.ARTICLEChina CDC Weekly2021

    The world's population continues to grow, albeit at a slower pace. The decelerating growth is mainly attributable to fertility declines in a growing number of countries. However, there are substantial variations in the future trends of populations across regions and countries, with sub-Saharan African countries being projected to have most of the increase. Population momentum plays an important role in determining the future population growth in …

  • Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

    Danan Gu, Matthew E DupreBOOKEncyclopedia of Gerontology and…2021

  • Health Behaviors and Self-Reported Oral Health among Centenarians in Nanjing, China

    Open AccessXin Xu, Yuan Zhao et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The role of health behaviors in oral health conditions in individuals of extremely old age remains understudied. This study included 185 participants aged 100 years or older from the Nanjing Centenarians Study (NCS) to examine the associations between health behaviors and oral health and investigate the potential moderating role of education and living arrangements in such relationships. The oral health status as an outcome included the self-repo…

  • Covid-19 and Its Impacts on Older Adults

    Open AccessDanan Gu, Qiushi FengARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021Referências: 8

  • Widowhood, widowhood duration, and loneliness among older adults in China

    Open AccessFang Yang, Danan GuARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Citada por: 12Referências: 67

  • Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

    Open AccessDanan Gu, Matthew E DupreBOOKEncyclopedia of Gerontology and…2020

  • Individual-level factors attributable to urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China

    Open AccessYuan Zhao, Xin Xu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China was largely attributable to differences in individual socioeconomic resources (i.e., education, income, and access to healthcare) regardless of gender and age group

  • Gender difference in trends in healthy life expectancy in 2005-2012 for adults aged 50 years and older in South Africa

    Open AccessWitness Chirinda, Y Saito et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Data characterizing older people’s life expectancy by good or poor health is important for policy and fiscal planning. This study aims to examine trends and investigate gender differences in healthy life expectancy (HLE) for older people in South Africa for the period 2005–2012. Using data from three repeated cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2005, 2008, and 2012, we applied a self-rated health measure to estimating HLE. The Sullivan method wa…

  • Use of the average age ratio method in analyzing age heaping in censuses

    Open AccessDanan Gu, Qiushi FengARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Based on the methods of the average period age ratio and the average cohort age ratio, this study systematically assesses age heaping or digit preference in all population censuses of China. Our study finds that the overall age heaping was relatively low in the Chinese censuses; however, there was a notable preference for ages ending with zero after age 50 in the first two censuses, despite a weakening trend over time. Our study further shows tha…

  • Reciprocal Dynamics of Solo-Living and Health Among Older Adults in Contemporary China

    Open AccessDanan Gu, Qiushi Feng et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2018Citada por: 8Referências: 4

    There is a bi-directional relationship between solo-living and well-being/health among the Chinese older adults. Solo-living is a conditioned choice of a set of critical factors among older Chinese. The greater involvement in social/leisure activities is likely a key for Chinese solo-living older adults to mitigate the negative impact of their lower psychological well-being on subsequent mortality

  • Exposure to urban life and mortality risk among older adults in China

    Open AccessDanan Gu, Qiushi Feng et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018Citada por: 1

    We examined whether exposure to urban environments was linked with mortality in a longitudinal survey dataset of nearly 28,000 Chinese adults who were 65 years of age or older in the years 2002–2014. Urban life exposure was measured by residential status at birth, current residential status, and urban-related primary lifetime occupation, which generated eight different categories of urban life exposure: no exposure, mid-life-only exposure, late-l…