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Double jeopardy, aging as leveler, or persistent health inequality?
— a longitudinal analysis of white and black Americans | | Author(s) | Kenneth F Ferraro, Melissa M Farmer |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 51B, no 6, November 1996 |
| Pages | pp S319-S328 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Ill health ; White people ; Black people ; Measurement ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Longitudinal data for a 15-year national survey of American adults are used to test the double jeopardy to health hypothesis, as well as the alternative hypothesis that ageing levels ethnic differences, and that health inequalities persist across the life course. Findings show that African Americans began the study in poorer health and manifested higher mortality. Among survivors, young and middle-aged Black adults developed more serious illness, and their subjective health declined more rapidly than their white counterparts during the first ten years of the study. Among subjects with heart failure, blacks were also more likely to become disabled than whites over time. Depending on the health measure considered and the analysis applied, there was evidence for all three processes, but the weight of the evidence shows persistent health inequality over the life course. Evidence for the 'age as leveller' thesis was eliminated by accounting for mortality during the study. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125236 A |
| Classmark | CC: CH: TKA: TKE: 3R: 3J: 7T |
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