Socioeconomic differences in health among older adults in Mexico

KV Smith, N Goldman - Social science & medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
Although the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well-
established in Western industrialized countries, few studies have examined this association …

Socioeconomic status and health among older adults in rural and urban China

Z Zimmer, J Kwong - Journal of aging and health, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, which has
proven to be quite robust, is rarely tested in societies where levels of economic development …

Surprising SES gradients in mortality, health, and biomarkers in a Latin American population of adults

L Rosero-Bixby, WH Dow - Journals of Gerontology Series B …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background To determine socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in the different dimensions
of health among elderly Costa Ricans. Hypothesis: SES disparities in adult health are …

Lifetime socioeconomic status and late-life health trajectories: Longitudinal results from the Mexican Health and Aging Study

JM Torres, S Rizzo, R Wong - The Journals of Gerontology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Objective: This article examines the association between childhood and adult
socioeconomic status (SES) and late-life health trajectories for older adults in Mexico …

Socioeconomic disparities in health in the United States: what the patterns tell us

PA Braveman, C Cubbin, S Egerter… - … journal of public …, 2010 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We aimed to describe socioeconomic disparities in the United States across
multiple health indicators and socioeconomic groups. Methods. Using recent national data …

The relationship among income, other socioeconomic indicators, and functional level in older persons

CS Berkman, BJ Gurland - Journal of Aging and Health, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
Socioeconomic status (SES) is well established as a cause of morbidity and mortality, but
relatively few studies have investigated the relationship between SES and functional level …

Social patterning of chronic disease risk factors in a Latin American city

NL Fleischer, AV Diez Roux, M Alazraqui… - Journal of Urban …, 2008 - Springer
Most studies of socioeconomic status (SES) and chronic disease risk factors have been
conducted in high-income countries, and most show inverse social gradients. Few studies …

Socioeconomic status and health: what we know and what we don't

NE Adler, JM Ostrove - Annals of the New York academy of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
In the past 15 years, we have seen a marked increase in research on socioeconomic status
(SES) and health. Research in the first part of this era examined the nature of the …

SES differentials in health by age and alternative indicators of SES

S Robert, JS House - Journal of aging and health, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the general persistence and even increase of strong socioeconomic status (SES)
differentials in health in the United States, research suggests that SES differentials in health …

Socioeconomic status and health among the aged in the United States and Germany: a comparative cross-sectional study

O Von dem Knesebeck, G Lüschen… - Social science & …, 2003 - Elsevier
This study investigates socioeconomic status (SES) differences in health among the aged in
Germany and the United States. Intra-elderly age differences in the SES–health gradient are …