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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w12674 |
来源ID | Working Paper 12674 |
The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic | |
James Banks; Michael Marmot; Zoe Oldfield; James P. Smith | |
发表日期 | 2006-11-09 |
出版年 | 2006 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth is used as the marker of one's SES status. These conclusions are maintained even after controlling for a standard set of behavioral risk factors such as smoking, drinking, and obesity and are equally true using either biological measures of disease or individual self-reports. In contrast to these disease based measures, health of American men appears to be superior to the health of English men when self-reported general health status is used. The contradiction most likely stems instead from different thresholds used by Americans and English when evaluating health status on subjective scales. For the same "objective" health status, Americans are much more likely to say that their health is good than are the English. Finally, feedbacks from new health events to household income are one of the reasons that underlie the strength of the income gradient with health in England. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12674 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570336 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James Banks,Michael Marmot,Zoe Oldfield,et al. The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic. 2006. |
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