Persistent population aging worldwide is focusing attention on modifiable factors that can
improve later life health. There is evidence that religiosity and spirituality are among such …

This chapter reviews recent studies of socioeconomic status (SES) and racial differences in
health. It traces patterns of the social distribution of disease over time and describes the …

It is not a gainsaying that challenges to both healthy living and the environment are the
result of deteriorating environmental quality with the attendant effect on environmental …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and
between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the …

This article proposes several conceptual perspectives designed to advance our
understanding of the material and experiential conditions contributing to persistent …

We examine the effect of early-life rainfall on the health, education, and socioeconomic
outcomes of Indonesian adults. We link historical rainfall for each individual's birth year and …

In this article we assess and compare long-term adult socioeconomic status impacts from
having experienced psychological and physical health problems in childhood. To do so, we …

Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and
technology from 1700 to 2100. Although throughout most of human history, chronic …

Increasingly, social scientists are turning to childhood to gain a better understanding of the
fundamental social causes of adult mortality. However, evidence of the link between …

This paper compares the meanings and applications of concepts relevant to both the life
course and the stress process frameworks. Some of these concepts bear the same labels …