Socioeconomic gradients in health status over 29 years of follow-up after midlife: the Alameda county study

Frank, John; Cohen, Richard. D.; Yen, Irene H.; Balfour, Jennifer L.; Smith, Margot

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.08.003

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“…First, it demonstrates increased risk of incident CHD associated with lower SES in a nationally representative, longitudinal study of the US population. Previous research in US samples examined CHD mortality only (3) or examined incident CHD in selected, nonrepresentative samples (7)(8)(9)(10). Second, this study is one of few to show depressive symptoms associated with increased risk of incident CHD among both women and men.…”

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Do Depression and Anxiety Mediate the Link Between Educational Attainment and CHD?

Thurston

Kubzansky

Kawachi

et al. 2006

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Education and depressive and anxious symptoms are associated with each other and risk of incident CHD. Although depressive and anxious symptoms are highest among those with lowest levels of education, they do not appear to mediate the relation between educational attainment and incident CHD. Findings suggest the importance of interventions to reduce socioeconomic disadvantage and negative affect in preventing CHD.

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“…The relation between SES and CHD mortality has been demonstrated in a number of studies in representative samples of the US population (3) and in Europe (2,4 -6). However, evidence linking SES with incident CHD is more limited (7)(8)(9)(10).…”

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Do Depression and Anxiety Mediate the Link Between Educational Attainment and CHD?

Thurston

Kubzansky

Kawachi

et al. 2006

Psychosomatic Medicine

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“…Achieving equity in care provision is challenging, though, because health follows SES gradients: individuals of lower SES have higher levels of morbidity, disability, premature mortality, and mortality. [1][2][3][4][5][6] A health system that provides equitable care would therefore tend to provide more services to those in low-SES groups in response to these higher health needs.…”

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Universal Health Insurance and Equity in Primary Care and Specialist Office Visits: A Population-Based Study

Glazier¹,

Agha²,

Moineddin³

et al. 2009

The Annals of Family Medicine

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PURPOSEUniversal coverage of physician services should serve to reduce socioeconomic disparities in care, but the degree to which a reduction occurs is unclear. We examined equity in use of physician services in Ontario, Canada, after controlling for health status using both self-reported and diagnosis-based measures. RESULTS After adjustment, higher education was not associated with at least 1 primary care visit (odds ratio [OR] = 1.05; 95% confi dence interval [CI], 0.87-1.24), but it was inversely associated with frequent visits (OR = 0.77; 95% CI, 0.65-0.88). Higher education was directly associated with at least 1 specialist visit (OR = 1.20; 95% CI, 1.07-1.34), with frequent specialist visits (OR = 1.21; 95% CI, 1.03-1.39), and with bypassing primary care to reach specialists (OR = 1.23, 95% CI 1.02-1.44). The largest inequities by education were found for dermatology and ophthalmology. Income was not independently associated with inequities in physician contact or frequency of visits. METHODS

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“…The measurement details found in the supplementary materials of the manuscript uniquely identify the usefulness of this approach to SES that could have relevance in developed nations as well. For example, a considerable amount of attention in the U.S. has been given to cumulative disadvantage and SES gradients in explaining health (Ferraro and Shippee, 2009;Ferraro et al, 2006;Frank et al, 2003). However, such measurements of SES often rely on income-based economic indicators which may underestimate the gross effect of wealth and/or poverty comprehensively on health.…”

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Skin color, interviewer-ascribed ethnoracial classification, racial/ethnic self-identification & discrimination: Commentary on Perreira and Telles (2014)

Ortiz

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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Socioeconomic gradients in health status over 29 years of follow-up after midlife: the Alameda county study

Cited by 39 publications

References 66 publications

Do Depression and Anxiety Mediate the Link Between Educational Attainment and CHD?

Do Depression and Anxiety Mediate the Link Between Educational Attainment and CHD?

Universal Health Insurance and Equity in Primary Care and Specialist Office Visits: A Population-Based Study

Skin color, interviewer-ascribed ethnoracial classification, racial/ethnic self-identification & discrimination: Commentary on Perreira and Telles (2014)

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