[EQ] The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic

 

The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic

 

No. W07/04. The Institute for Fiscal Studies, UCL (University College London)

James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoë Oldfield, James P. Smith(2007)

 

Available online as PDF file [53] at: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/2653/1/2653.pdf

 

“….In this paper, we will investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and how those differences vary by SES in both countries. Three SES measures will be emphasized—education, household income, and household wealth—and the health outcomes investigated will span multiple dimensions as well.

 

This paper is divided into nine sections.

·         Introduction

·         The second describes the two primary data sources that will be used in this analysis.

·         Section three highlights the most salient aspects of the male SES health gradients in self-reported diseases in both countries, emphasizing both their similarities as well as their differences.

·         Section four documents the very different portrait of across-country differences in health that is obtained when self-reported general health status is used instead as the primary health status measure.

·         The fifth section documents that these differences in male health in the two countries are not due to standard behavioral risk factors, such as smoking, drinking, and obesity.

·         Section 6 explores the degree to which differential measurement of self-reports of health status between the two countries accounts for the differences that emerge in the SES health gradient.

·         The issue of the relevance of absolute and relative income scales to make international comparisons is addressed in section seven.

·         Section eight explores whether there are important health affects on male labor force activity and household income in England and

·         the ninth section examines health gradients by financial wealth in the two countries….”

 

 

 

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