Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have
expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. Although the field has experienced rapid …

Alcohol use has been causally linked to more than 200 disease and injury conditions, as
defined by three-digit ICD-10 codes. The understanding of how alcohol use is related to …

Health disparities disproportionately affect minority cultural groups (eg, Indigenous,
immigrant, refugee) worldwide; enduring across time, disease states, and risk factors despite …

Eliminating health disparities is a Healthy People goal. Given the diverse and sometimes
broad definitions of health disparities commonly used, a subcommittee convened by the …

BACKGROUND: Health researchers rarely measure accumulated wealth to reflect
socioeconomic status/position (SES). In order to determine whether health research should …

Blacks are especially hard hit by cognitive impairment at older ages compared to whites.
Here, we take advantage of the Health and Retirement Study (1998–2010) to assess how …

In this study, the authors use longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
and growth curve models to examine the utility of the concept of cumulative disadvantage as …

OBJECTIVE Although several studies have examined the association between
socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality in the general population, few have investigated …

A large body of research links wealth and health, but most previous work focuses on net
worth. However, the assets and debts that comprise wealth likely relate to health in different …

Background Despite the importance of socioeconomic position for survival, total wealth,
which is a measure of accumulation of assets over the life course, has been …