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Baseline health, socioeconomic status and 10-year mortality among older middle-aged Americans
— findings from the Health and Retirement Study, 1992-2002 | | Author(s) | Joe Feinglass, Suru Lin, Jason Thompson |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 4, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp S209-S217 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Economic status [elderly] ; Death rate [statistics] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the US, baseline health by age 50 is an important determinant in the association between mid-life socioeconomic status and mortality risk to age 70. In this study, the authors confirmed deaths until 2002 for 9759 participants in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) aged 51 to 61 in 1992. They used discrete time survival models to examine hazard ratios over 10 years of follow-up, and examined associations of demographic characteristics and socioeconomic status measures before and after adjustment by health status and behavioural risk factors. The 10-year mortality rate was 10.9%, ranging from 4.9% for those reporting excellent health, to 35.8% for those reporting poor health at baseline. Lower levels of education, income and wealth see strongly associated with higher mortality risk after controlling for just demographic characteristics. After further adjustment for health status and behavioural risk factors, only household income remained significant. Socioeconomic disparities in middle age health continue to limit disability-free life expectancy at older ages. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080305217 A |
| Classmark | CC: F:W: S5: 3J: 7T |
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