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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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Socioeconomic factors, health behaviors, and mortality: Results from a nationally representative prospective study of US adults
Paula M. Lantz,James S. House,James M. Lepkowski,David R. Williams,Richard P. Mero,Jieming Chen +5 more
TL;DR: Although reducing the prevalence of health risk behaviors in low-income populations is an important public health goal, socioeconomic differences in mortality are due to a wider array of factors and, therefore, would persist even with improved health behaviors among the disadvantaged.
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Cumulative Advantage/Disadvantage and the Life Course: Cross-Fertilizing Age and Social Science Theory
TL;DR: The genesis of the cumulative advantage/disadvantage perspective in studies of science, its initial articulation with structural-functionalism, and its expanding importance for gerontology are reviewed; its intellectual relevance for several other established theoretical paradigms in sociology, psychology, and economics is discussed.
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Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments
TL;DR: Cumulative advantage is a general mechanism for inequality across any temporal process (e.g., life course, family generations) in which a favorable relative position becomes a resource that produces further relative gains as mentioned in this paper.
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