ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2005
Social dynamics of health inequalities: a growth curve analysis of aging and self assessed health in the British household panel survey 1991-2001.
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- "Getting sicker quicker": does living in a more deprived neighbourhood mean your health deteriorates faster?Health & place · 2012Article
- Do social inequalities in health widen or converge with age? Longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland.BMC public health · 2011Article
- Ageing, social class and common mental disorders: longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland.Psychological medicine · 2011Article
- Cohort Profile: Survey of Families, Income and Employment (SoFIE) and Health Extension (SoFIE-health).International journal of epidemiology · 2010Article
- The association of cognitive performance with mental health and physical functioning strengthens with age: the Whitehall II cohort study.Psychological medicine · 2010Article
- Cohort profile: west of Scotland twenty-07 study: health in the community.International journal of epidemiology · 2009Article
- Inflammatory markers and cognitive function in middle-aged adults: the Whitehall II study.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2008Article
- Social inequalities in self reported health in early old age: follow-up of prospective cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo study how social inequalities change as people age, this paper presents a growth curve model of self assessed health, which accommodates changes in occupational class and individual health with age.
designNationally representative interview based longitudinal survey of adults in Great Britain.
settingRepresentative members of private households of Great Britain in 1991.
participantsSurvey respondents (n = 6705), aged 21-59 years in 1991 and followed up annually until 2001.
main outcome measureSelf assessed health.
resultsOn average, self assessed health declines slowly from early adulthood to retirement age. No significant class differences in health were observed at age 21. Health inequalities emerged later in life with the gap between mean levels of self assessed health of those in managerial and professional occupations and routine occupations widening approaching retirement. Individual variability in health trajectories increased between ages 40 and 59 years so that this widening of mean differences between occupational classes was not significant. When the analysis is confined to people whose occupational class remained constant over time, a far greater difference in health trajectories between occupational classes was seen.
conclusionsThe understanding of social inequalities in health at the population level is enriched by an analysis of individual variation in age related declines by social position.
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