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Title: Inequality in Men's Mortality: The Socioeconomic Status Gradient and Geographic Context
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Hayward, Mark D. Pienta, Amy M. McLaughlin, Diane K. |
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Inequality in Men's Mortality: The Socioeconomic Status Gradient and Geographic Context Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38,4 (December 1997): 313-330. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2955428 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Epidemiology; Health Care; Life Cycle Research; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Mortality; Rural Areas; Rural/Urban Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Lower mortality for older rural Americans, compared to urban residents, runs counter to rural-urban disparities in health care services and residents' socioeconomic resources. This paradox calls into question the ways in which community conditions influence mortality and contextualized the relationship between individuals' socioeconomic status and health. Drawing on 24 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men, we observe that rural older men's life expectancy advantages occur even after controlling for residential differences in social class and lifestyle factors. Our results also show that rural advantages in mortality coincide with a more equitable distribution of life chances across the social classes. The association between social class and mortality is strongest among urban men, arising from socioeconomic conditions throughout the life cycle. |
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Hayward, Mark D., Amy M. Pienta and Diane K. McLaughlin. "Inequality in Men's Mortality: The Socioeconomic Status Gradient and Geographic Context." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38,4 (December 1997): 313-330.
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