Irma T. Elo

TL;DR: Differentials in U.S. mortality among both men and women in the early 1980s are larger for men and for working ages than for women and persons age 65 and above and reduced in magnitude when controls for income, marital status and current place of residence are introduced.

TL;DR: The deprivation index was associated with the unadjusted prevalence of preterm birth and low birth weight for white non-Hispanic and to a lesser extent for black non- Hispanic women across the eight sites, suggesting the utility of using a deprivation index for research into neighborhood effects on adverse birth outcomes.

TL;DR: The effects of health conditions in childhood on an individual's mortality risks as an adult is considered and demographic and epidemiologic studies for evidence of the hypothesized linkages are reviewed.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on patterns of these inequalities in developed countries as well as their potential explanations can be found in this article, where the authors discuss various measures used to define social class in studies of health inequalities, including biological pathways that are likely to be involved in translating cumulative adversity to poor health.

TL;DR: Both cross-sectional and fixed-effects logit models yield quantitatively important and statistically reliable estimates of the positive effect of maternal schooling on the use of prenatal care and delivery assistance, suggesting that much greater efforts are required if modern maternal health-care services are to reach women in rural areas.