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Title: Education and Income — United States, 2009 and 2011
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2013
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Abstract: The factors that influence the socioeconomic position of individuals and groups within industrial societies also influence their health (1,2). Socioeconomic position has continuous and graded effects on health that are cumulative over a lifetime. The socioeconomic conditions of the places where persons live and work have an even more substantial influence on health than personal socioeconomic position (3,4). In the United States, educational attainment and income are the indicators that are most commonly used to measure the effect of socioeconomic position on health. Research indicates that substantial educational and income disparities exist across many measures of health (1,5–8). A previous report described the magnitude and patterns of absolute and relative measures of disparity in noncompletion of high school and poverty in 2005 and 2009 (9). Notable disparities defined by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, disability status, and geographic location were identified for 2005 and 2009, with no evidence of a temporal decrease in racial/ethnic disparities, whereas socioeconomic and disability disparities increased from 2005 to 2009. The analysis and discussion of educational attainment and income that follow are part of the second CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (CHDIR) and update information on disparities in the prevalence of noncompletion of high school and poverty presented in the first CHDIR (8). The 2011 CHDIR (9) was the first CDC report to describe disparities across a wide range of diseases, behavioral risk factors, environmental exposures, social determinants, and health-care access. The topic presented in this report is based on criteria that are described in the 2013 CHDIR Introduction (10). The purposes of this analysis are to discuss and raise awareness about group differences in levels of noncompletion of high school and poverty and to motivate actions to reduce these disparities.
Url: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6203a3.htm
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Authors: Beckles, Gloria, L; Truman, Benedict, I
Periodical (Full): Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Issue: 03
Volume: 69
Pages: 9-19
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Education, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Population Health and Health Systems
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