The latest evidence on socioeconomic status and stroke shows that stroke not only
disproportionately affects low-income and middle-income countries, but also …

The authors review the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) across its history of more than
40 years. The WLS began as a study of post-secondary aspirations and educational …

Mortality studies show that social inequalities in health include, but are not confined to,
worse health among the poor. There is a social gradient; mortality rises with decreasing …

While two-generation studies provide important insights into how social and economic
advantages and disadvantages are passed from one generation to the next, much less …

This study examines gender and marital status differences in psychological well-being
across an extensive array of measures using data from a sample of non-Hispanic, White …

This study examined the effects of caregiving for disabled children, spouses, parents, and
other kin and nonkin on multiple positive and negative dimensions of psychological well …

People have always relied on their friends, neighbors, and co-workers as well as family
members for social support, but support from outside the family may be increasingly …

New Horizons in Health discusses how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) can integrate
research in the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences to better understand the causes …

Widely documented inverse associations between socioeconomic standing and incident
chronic disease and mortality invite explanation in terms of pathways to these outcomes …

We present a strategy for using longitudinal survey data to identify life history pathways
linked with mental health outcomes. The central aim is to begin with richly detailed …