The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health over the Life-Course

Autor/in	Smith, James P.
Titel	The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health over the Life-Course
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 52 (2007) 4, S.739-764 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Incidence; Socioeconomic Status; Socioeconomic Influences; Family Income; Chronic Illness; Educational Attainment; Physical Health; Public Health; Age Differences; Computation; Health Behavior; At Risk Persons; Racial Differences; Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vorkommen; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Familieneinkommen; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Gesundheitszustand; Gesundheitswesen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Risikogruppe; Rassenunterschied; Prädiktor
Abstract	Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics PSID, across the life course Socio Economic Status (SES) impacts future health outcomes, although the primary influence is education and not an individual's financial resources in whatever form they are received. That conclusion appears to be robust whether the financial resources are income or wealth or whether the financial resources represent new information such as the largely unanticipated wealth that was a consequence of the recent stock market boom. Finally, this conclusion is robust across new health outcomes that take place across the short and intermediate time frames of up to 15 years in the future. The Quality of the PSID Health Data--which consisted of figures and tables that shows the following: (1) Date of onset of chronic condition; (2) Focal point responding for self and spouse; and (3) Prospective Incidence in the Original HRS Cohort and Retrospective Incidence in the PSID Cohort--is appended. (Contains 2 figures, 5 tables and 17 footnotes.) [Funding for this research was provided by the National Institute on Aging.] (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10