Childhood housing conditions and later mortality in the Boyd Orr cohort

Dedman, DJ; Gunnell, D; Smith, George Davey; Frankel, Stephen

doi:10.1136/jech.55.1.10

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“…6 As a result, our analysis deals with exposure to early-life circumstances but not the timing or duration of that exposure. Measuring family structure and socioeconomic status at a fixed age in early life is consistent with prior research (Dedman et al 2001;Lynch et al 1994;Lynch, Kaplan, and Salonen 1997;Marmot et al 1997b;Rahkonen et al 1997).…”

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Early-Life Origins of the Race Gap in Men's Mortality

Warner

Hayward²

2006

J Health Soc Behav

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Using a life course framework, we examine the early life origins of the race gap in men's all-cause mortality. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men (1966-1990), we evaluate major social pathways by which early life conditions differentiate the mortality experiences of blacks and whites. Our findings indicate that early life socioeconomic conditions, particularly parental occupation and family structure, explain part of the race gap in mortality. Black men's higher rates of death are associated with lower socioeconomic standing in early life and living in homes lacking both biological parents. However these effects operate indirectly through adult socioeconomic achievement processes, as education, family income, wealth, and occupational complexity statistically account for the race gap in men's mortality. Our findings suggest that policy interventions to eliminate race disparities in mortality and health should address both childhood and adult socioeconomic conditions.

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confidence: 80%

Early-Life Origins of the Race Gap in Men's Mortality

Warner

Hayward²

2006

J Health Soc Behav

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119

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“…We use this information together with matched mortality data obtained from official death registers, collected up to 2005 by researchers in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, to investigate if childhood socio-economic conditions were significant predictors of mortality. In this respect, we build on several papers by medical researchers who have used these data (see Frankel et al, 1999;Dedman et al, 2001). 1 A review of the wider epidemiology literature on childhood socioeconomic conditions and mortality can be found in Galobardes et al (2004), who note that there has been 'relatively little investigation of how early life social circumstances influence adult health ' (p.8).…”

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Childhood economic conditions and length of life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr cohort, 1937–2005

Frijters

Hatton

Martin

et al. 2010

Journal of Health Economics

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“…This follow-up has documented: the extent to which deprivation in childhood is related to later mortality , Dedman et al 2001; the influence of socio-economic and dietary factors on childhood growth and anthropometric characteristics, in particular leg length ; the influence of such childhood growth patterns on later mortality in cancer risk (Gunnell et al 1998b,c); and various aspects of how infant and childhood diet are related to later health (for references, see Martin et al 2005).…”

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Life-course approaches to inequalities in adult chronic disease risk

Smith

2007

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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A life-course approach to chronic-disease epidemiology uses a multidisciplinary framework to understand the importance of time and timing in associations between exposures and outcomes at the individual and population levels. Such an approach to chronic diseases is enriched by specification of the particular manner in which timing in relation to physical growth, reproduction, infection, social mobility, behavioural transitions etc. can influence various adult chronic diseases in different ways, and more ambitiously by how these temporal processes are interconnected and manifested in health inequalities within a population and in population-level disease trends. The paper will discuss some historical background to life-course epidemiology and theoretical models of life-course processes, and will review some of the empirical evidence linking life-course processes to CHD, haemorrhagic stroke, stomach cancer and other chronic diseases in adulthood. It will also underscore that a life-course approach offers a way to conceptualize how underlying socio-environmental determinants of health, experienced at different life-course stages, can differentially influence the development of chronic diseases, as mediated through proximal specific biological processes.

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Childhood housing conditions and later mortality in the Boyd Orr cohort

Cited by 105 publications

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Early-Life Origins of the Race Gap in Men's Mortality

Early-Life Origins of the Race Gap in Men's Mortality

Childhood economic conditions and length of life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr cohort, 1937–2005

Life-course approaches to inequalities in adult chronic disease risk

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