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Title: Childhood Conditions That Predict Survival to Advanced Ages

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2003

ISBN: 978-94-017-0325-3; 978-90-481-6395-3

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0325-3_7

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Abstract: Studies of social and economic differentials in mortality typically relate circumstances at one moment in time to contemporary mortality risks. Literally hundreds of studies that date back more than a century show that, with rare exception, socially and economically disadvantaged groups suffer elevated risks of death (Williams 1990; Feinstein 1993). Such results are hardly surprising. Healthiness and longevity are nearly universal goals, and groups with more economic and social resources are better equipped to achieve these goals.

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-017-0325-3_7

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Authors: Preston, Samuel H.; Elo, Irma T.; Hill, Mark E.; Rosenwaike, Ira

Editors: Preston, Samuel H.; Elo, Irma T.; Hill, Mark E.; Rosenwaike, Ira

Pages: 167-198

Volume Title: The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990

Publisher: Springer, Dordrecht

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Fertility and Mortality, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States