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来源类型 | Publication |
Measuring Recent Apparent Declines in Longevity: The Role of Increasing Educational Attainment | |
John Bound; Arline T. Geronimus; Javier M. Rodriguez; and Timothy A. Waidmann | |
发表日期 | 2015-12-30 |
出版者 | Health Affairs, vol. 34, no. 12 (subscription required) |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Independent researchers have reported an alarming decline in life expectancy after 1990 among US non-Hispanic whites with less than a high school education.", |
摘要 | Independent researchers have reported an alarming decline in life expectancy after 1990 among U.S. non-Hispanic whites with less than a high school education. However, U.S. educational attainment rose dramatically during the twentieth century; thus, focusing on changes in mortality rates of those not completing high school means looking at a different, shrinking, and increasingly vulnerable segment of the population in each year. The authors analyzed U.S. data to examine the robustness of earlier findings categorizing education in terms of relative rank in the overall distribution of each birth cohort, instead of by credentials such as high school graduation. Estimating trends in mortality for the bottom quartile, the authors found little evidence that survival probabilities declined dramatically. The authors conclude that widely publicized estimates of worsening mortality rates among non-Hispanic whites with low socioeconomic position are highly sensitive to how educational attainment is classified. However, non-Hispanic whites with low socioeconomic position, especially women, are not sharing in improving life expectancy, and disparities between U.S. blacks and whites are entrenched. Findings underscore the urgency of an agenda to equitably disseminate new medical technologies and to deepen knowledge of social determinants of health and how that knowledge can be applied, to promote the objective of achieving population health equity. |
URL | https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/measuring-recent-apparent-declines-in-longevity-the-role-of-increasing-educational-attainment |
来源智库 | Mathematica Policy Research (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/488376 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John Bound,Arline T. Geronimus,Javier M. Rodriguez,et al. Measuring Recent Apparent Declines in Longevity: The Role of Increasing Educational Attainment. 2015. |
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