Social relationships—both quantity and quality—affect mental health, health behavior,
physical health, and mortality risk. Sociologists have played a central role in establishing the …

Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a reliable correlate of poor physical health. Rather than
treat SES as a covariate, health psychology has increasingly focused on the …

In 2011, US mortality rates reached record lows for both women and men; as a result, life
expectancy at birth reached record highs: 81 years for women and 76 years for men. 1 …

Background: Although higher socioeconomic status (SES) indicators such as educational
attainment are linked with health behaviors, the Blacks' Diminished Return theory posits that …

Purpose Despite the well-established health effects of socioeconomic status (SES), SES
resources such as employment may differently influence health outcomes across sub …

A vast literature has documented the inverse association between educational attainment
and US adult mortality risk but given little attention to identifying the optimal functional form …

Background: Minorities' Diminished Return (MDR) theory suggests that socioeconomic
position (SEP) may have a smaller effect on health and well-being of members of the …

The positive associations between education and health and survival are well established,
but whether the strength of these associations depends on gender is not. Is the beneficial …

Purpose Although the link between education and alcohol consumption is known, limited
information exists on racial differences in this link. We conducted the current study to test …

The educational gradient of US adult mortality became steeper between 1960 and the mid-
1980s, but whether it continued to steepen is less clear given a dearth of attention to these …