SynthesisJournal of epidemiology2012
Socioeconomic disparities and health: impacts and pathways.
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56 citing papers in PubMed, 130 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Reduction in Vegetable Intake Disparities With a Web-Based Nutrition Education Intervention Among Lower-Income Adults in Japan: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Trial
- Socioeconomic factors associated with post-operative biochemical remission in acromegaly.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2026Article
- Work Disability, Early Retirement, and Loss of a Loved One in the World Trade Center Health Registry Cohort.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Article
- Racial and Socioeconomic Healthcare Disparities in Access to Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T) Cell Therapy for Blood Cancers.Cancer medicine · 2026Review
- Perceived barriers and facilitators to engagement and behavioral enactment in weight management interventions among racial and ethnic minorities.Discover public health · 2026Article
- Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Engagement and Behavioral Enactment in Weight Management Interventions Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities.Research square · 2025Article
- The Mediating Effect of Smoking on the Association between Income and Dementia among Japanese Older People.JMA journal · 2025Article
- Prevalence of multimorbidity and its relationship with socioeconomic status among Chinese older adults over time.PloS one · 2025Article
- Impact of neighborhood context on self-rated health among very old adults living in Germany: a cross-sectional representative study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Perceptions of Wearable Health Tools Post the COVID-19 Emergency in Low-Income Latin Communities: Qualitative Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Article
- Gender differences in the relationship between income inequality and health in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey data.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Social Needs Identified by Diagnostic Codes in Privately Insured U.S. Adults.American journal of preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Understanding health problems in people with extremely low health-related quality of life in Korea.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Substantial increase in perceived benefits over harms of COVID-19 outbreak but persistent socioeconomic disparities: Comparison of two cross-sectional surveys in Hong Kong from 2020 to 2021.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic Classes among Oldest-Old Women in South Korea: A Latent Class Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Social capital and use of assisted reproductive technology in young couples: Ecological study using application information for government subsidies in Japan.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- An empirical analysis of the impact of income inequality and social capital on physical and mental health - take China's micro-database analysis as an example.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
- Low education is associated with poor periodontal status in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2021Article
- With great inequality comes great responsibility: the role of government spending on population health in the presence of changing income distributions.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2021Article
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Abstract
Growing socioeconomic disparity is a global concern, as it could affect population health. The author and colleagues have investigated the health impacts of socioeconomic disparities as well as the pathways that underlie those disparities. Our meta-analysis found that a large population has risks of mortality and poor self-rated health that are attributable to income inequality. The study results also suggested the existence of threshold effects (ie, a threshold of income inequality over which the adverse impacts on health increase), period effects (ie, the potential for larger impacts in later years, specifically after the 1990s), and lag effects between income inequality and health outcomes. Our other studies using Japanese national representative survey data and a large-scale cohort study of Japanese older adults (AGES cohort) support the relative deprivation hypothesis, namely, that invidious social comparisons arising from relative deprivation in an unequal society adversely affect health. A study with a natural experiment design found that the socioeconomic gradient in self-rated health might actually have become shallower after the 1997-98 economic crisis in Japan, due to smaller health improvements among middle-class white-collar workers and middle/upper-income workers. In conclusion, income inequality might have adverse impacts on individual health, and psychosocial stress due to relative deprivation may partially explain those impacts. Any study of the effects of macroeconomic fluctuations on health disparities should also consider multiple potential pathways, including expanding income inequality, changes in the labor market, and erosion of social capital. Further studies are needed to attain a better understanding of the social determinants of health in a rapidly changing society.
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