We suggest an alternative way to construct a family of indices of socioeconomic inequality of health. Our indices belong to the broad category of linear indices. In contrast to rank-dependent indices, which are defined in terms of the...
Keywords: socioeconomic status and health; low socioeconomic status (SES) and poor health; psychosocial factors, for health differences - in different social groups; strong negative correlation - income inequality and life expectancy; working conditions - role for health equity; lack of association in...
Socioeconomic inequalities in health.Socioeconomic inequalities in health.Objective. —Socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly associated with risk of disease and mortality. Universal health insurance is being debated as one remedy for such health inequalities. This article considers mechanisms through which...
Public Policy Frameworks for Improving Population Health 896. Socioeconomic status and health in industrial nations: Social, psychological, and biological pathways (pp. 281-293). New York: New York Academy of... ALVIN,R.,TARLOV - 《Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences》 被引量: 145发...
socioeconomic status (e.g. indoor and outdoor air quality, smoke exposure, and access to healthcare) are likely to explain a significant proportion of ... E Forno,JC Celedón - 《Current Opinion in Allergy & Clinical Immunology》 被引量: 211发表: 2009年 The effects of socioeconomic status...
The task of explaining why socioeconomic status (SES) and health are strongly correlated has grown beyond the special problem of the 'gradient.' It is now evident that the stepwise relationship of measures of health with years of schooling and similar indicators is only one of several features ...
Socioeconomic Status and Health at Midlife Annals of Epidemiology 11 , 75-84 /Miech RA, Hauser RM (2001) Socioeconomic status and health at midlife: a comparison of educational attainment with occupation-based indicators. Ann Epidemiol 11(2):75–84... Miech,A Richard,Hauser,... - 《Annals...
This review highlights recent work on socioeconomic status and health.These studies include a wider range of measures of socioeconomic status and inequality than have previously existed in the literature. They examine psychologic, sociologic, and physiologic mechanisms by which socioeconomic status may ...
This study investigates socioeconomic status (SES) differences in health among the aged in Germany and the United States. Intra-elderly age differences in the SES–health gradient are also examined. The study uses data from two national telephone surveys conducted in Germany ( N =682) and the ...
Socioeconomic status and health-care utilization: a study of the effects of low income, unemployment and hours of work on the demand for health care in the... 2008. Socioeconomic status and health-care utilization: a study of the effects of low income, unemployment and hours of work on th...