MPC Member Publications

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Title: Socioeconomic Status and Health across the Life Course: A Test of the Social Causation and Health Selection Hypotheses.

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2009

ISSN: 0037-7732

DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0219

PMID: 23596343

Abstract: This research investigates the merits of the "social causation" and "health selection" explanations for associations between socioeconomic status and self-reported overall health, musculoskeletal health and depression. Using data that include information about individuals' SES and health from childhood through late adulthood, I employ structural equation models that account for errors in measured variables and that allow for explicit tests of various hypotheses about how SES and health are related. For each outcome and for both women and men the results provide no support for the health selection hypothesis. SES affects each health outcome at multiple points in the life course, but the reverse is not true.

Url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23596343

Url: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC3626501

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Authors: Warren, John Robert

Periodical (Full): Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation

Issue: 4

Volume: 87

Pages: 2125-2153

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