ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2014
The role of health behaviours across the life course in the socioeconomic patterning of all-cause mortality: the west of Scotland twenty-07 prospective cohort study.
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- SimAlba: A Spatial Microsimulation Approach to the Analysis of Health Inequalities.Frontiers in public health · 2016Article
- Hospital expenditure at the end-of-life: what are the impacts of health status and health risks?PloS one · 2015Article
- Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and repeated measurement of explanatory risk factors in a 25 years follow-up.PloS one · 2015Article
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backgroundSocioeconomic differentials in mortality are increasing in many industrialised countries. PURPOSE: This study aims to examine the role of behaviours (smoking, alcohol, exercise, and diet) in explaining socioeconomic differentials in mortality and whether this varies over the life course, between cohorts and by gender.
methodsAnalysis of two representative population cohorts of men and women, born in the 1950s and 1930s, were performed. Health behaviours were assessed on five occasions over 20 years.
resultsHealth behaviours explained a substantial part of the socioeconomic differentials in mortality. Cumulative behaviours and those that were more strongly associated with socioeconomic status had the greatest impact. For example, in the 1950s cohort, the age-sex adjusted hazard ratio comparing respondents with manual versus non-manual occupational status was 1.80 (1.25, 2.58); adjustment for cumulative smoking over 20 years attenuated the association by 49 %, diet by 43 %, drinking by 13 % and inactivity by only 1%.
conclusionsHealth behaviours have an important role in explaining socioeconomic differentials in mortality.
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