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Title: Socioeconomic Status, Health, and Mortality in Aging Populations

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN: 9780309474108

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Abstract: Nearly 25 years ago, Preston and Taubman (1994) summarized major observations from demographic research on socioeconomic difference in adult mortality and health in a National Research Council volume on the Demography of Aging. By then, the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and health and mortality were widely reported, although the measurement of these phenomena was not firmly established nor were the causal relationships between them. Most notable among the findings they reported was the widening of educational differences in mortality for men over the previous three decades, evident especially in the magnitude of educational differences in heart-disease death rates among White men. Mortality caused by cardiovascular disease . . .

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Authors: O’Rand, Angela, M; Lynch, Scott, M

Editors: Majmundar, Malay, K; Hayward, Mark, D

Pages: 67-98

Volume Title: Future Directions for the Demography of Aging: Proceedings of a Workshop

Publisher: National Academies Press

Publisher Location: Washington, DC

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Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems

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