Open Access
Socioeconomic Status and Health Differentials in China: Convergence Or Divergence at Older Ages?
Deborah Lowry,Yu Xie +1 more
About:
The article was published on 2009-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Divergence.read more
Citations
More filters
Posted Content
Can Patient Self-Management Help Explain the SES Health Gradient?
Dana P. Goldman,James P. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: Differences by education in treatment adherence among patients with two illnesses, diabetes and HIV, are examined, and the subsequent impact of differential adherence on health status is assessed.
Journal ArticleDOI
The effect of education on adult mortality and disability: a global perspective
Samir Kc,Harold Lentzner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a global assessment of the relationship between formal education and adult health, using sample data from 70 countries that participated in the World Health Survey and find that an increase in formal education is associated with lower levels of disability in both younger and older adults.
Journal ArticleDOI
Education and mortality among older adults in China.
Ye Luo,Zhenmei Zhang,Danan Gu +2 more
TL;DR: Primary education has a stronger effect on mortality for men than for women and the effect of education is stronger for the young old than for the oldest old, which underscores the importance of national and subpopulation contexts in understanding the relationship between education and mortality.
Journal ArticleDOI
Individual and province inequalities in health among older people in China: evidence and policy implications.
TL;DR: The results show that older Chinese women, rural residents, those with an education level lower than high school, without individual income sources, who are ex-smokers, and those from poor economic status households are more likely to report disability and poor self-rated health.
Journal ArticleDOI
Does education really improve health? a meta-analysis
TL;DR: The authors performed a meta-analysis of 4866 estimates gleaned from 99 published studies that examine the health effects of education and found that the overall effect size is practically zero, indicating that education generates no discernible benefits to health.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Self-rated health and mortality : a review of twenty-seven community studies
Ellen L. Idler,Yael Benyamini +1 more
TL;DR: This work examines the growing number of studies of survey respondents' global self-ratings of health as predictors of mortality in longitudinal studies of representative community samples and suggests several approaches to the next stage of research in this field.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Matthew effect in science. The reward and communication systems of science are considered.
TL;DR: The psychosocial conditions and mechanisms underlying the Matthew effect are examined and a correlation between the redundancy function of multiple discoveries and the focalizing function of eminent men of science is found—a function which is reinforced by the great value these men place upon finding basic problems and by their self-assurance.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease
Bruce G. Link,Jo C. Phelan +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that social factors such as socioeconomic status and social support are likely 'fundamental causes" of disease that affect multiple disease outcomes through multiple mechanisms, and consequently maintain an association with disease even when intervening mechanisms change.
Book
Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts
TL;DR: This publication examines this social gradient in health, and explains how psychological and social influences affect physical health and longevity, and looks at what is known about the most important social determinants of health today.
Journal ArticleDOI
The links between education and health.
Catherine E. Ross,Chia-Ling Wu +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that high educational attainment improves health directly and it improves health indirectly through work and economic conditions, social-psychological resources, and health lifestyle.
Related Papers (5)
The impact of socio-economic factors on functional status decline among community-dwelling older adults in China
May A Beydoun,Barry M. Popkin +1 more
Socioeconomic status and health among older adults in rural and urban China.
Zachary Zimmer,Julia Kwong +1 more