ArticleJournal of the economics of ageing2014
Comparing the Relationship Between Stature and Later Life Health in Six Low and Middle Income Countries.
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- Relationship between iodine nutritional status and low handgrip strength in a Northwestern Chinese cohort: construction of a predictive nomogram model.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- The Causal Effect of Adult Height on Late-Life Handgrip Strength: The Singapore Chinese Health Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Association of life course socioeconomic status and adult height with cognitive functioning of older adults in India and China.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- The Life Course, Cohort Dynamics, and International Differences in Aging Trajectories.Demography · 2017Article
- Height inequalities and their change trends in China during 1985-2010: results from 6 cross-sectional surveys on children and adolescents aged 7-18 years.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Adult height, nutrition, and population health.Nutrition reviews · 2016Review
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Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between stature and later life health in 6 emerging economies, each of which are expected to experience significant increases in the mean age of their populations over the coming decades. Using data from the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) and pilot data from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), I show that various measures of health are associated with height, a commonly used proxy for childhood environment. In the pooled sample, an additional 10cm increase in height is associated with between a 2 and 3 percentage point increase in the probability of being in very good or good self-reported health, a 3 percentage point increase in the probability of reporting no difficulties with activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living, and between a fifth and a quarter of a standard deviation increase in grip strength and lung function. Adopting a methodology previously used in the research on inequality, I also summarise the height-grip strength gradient for each country using the concentration index, and provide a decomposition analysis.
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