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Socioeconomic Status and Health Differentials in China: Convergence Or Divergence at Older Ages?
Deborah Lowry,Yu Xie +1 more
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Inequality and Equality under Chinese Socialism: The Hukou System and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility
Xiaogang Wu,Donald J. Treiman +1 more
TL;DR: This article analyzed the effect of family background on occupational mobility in contemporary China, with particular attention to the rural-urban institutional divide, and shed light on the relationships between the socialist state and social fluidity and between inequality and mobility.
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Political Change and the Urban-Rural Gap in Basic Education in China, 1949-1990
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Who gets screened for cervical and breast cancer? Results from a new national survey.
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Chinese family and kinship
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Are educational differentials in adult mortality increasing in the United States
Samuel H. Preston,Irma T. Elo +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that educational inequalities have widened for males but contracted for working-age females, and inequality trends are more adverse for persons aged 65+ than for Persons aged 25-64.
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