ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2017
Disparities in self-rated health across generations and through the life course.
Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mental health across the lifecourse as predictors of epigenetic aging from a longitudinal birth cohort in the United States.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Childhood experiences and adult self-rated physical health in 22 countries.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Impact of socioeconomic conditions across the life course on epigenetic age acceleration: evidence from a longitudinal cohort.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025Article
- Stress across the lifecourse and adult mental and physical health outcomes.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Article
- Cumulative Stress Across the Life Course and Biological Aging in Adulthood.Psychosomatic medicine · 2024Article
- Patterns of physical and mental co-occurring developmental health among Chinese elderly: A multidimensional growth mixture model analysis.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Loneliness and Self-Rated Health Among Black and White Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Racial socialization and discrimination-related psychological distress in middle-aged Black men and women.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2023Article
- Transgenerational effect of Mothers' experiences of discrimination on Black youths' hormone coupling in response to laboratory stress.Research in human development · 2023Article
- The Long Arm of Prospective Childhood Income for Mature Adult Health in the United States.Journal of health and social behavior · 2022Article
- Child socioeconomic status, childhood adversity and adult socioeconomic status in a nationally representative sample of young adults.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Comparing different operationalizations of allostatic load measured in mid-life and their patterning by race and cumulative life course socioeconomic status.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Article
- Considering social determinants of health in the relationship between physical activity and exercise engagement and cognitive impairment among persons with epilepsy.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Article
- How Income Influences Health: Decomposition Based on Absolute Income and Relative Income Effects.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The changing contribution of childhood social characteristics to mortality: a comparison of Finnish cohorts born in 1936-50 and 1961-75.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Racial differences in alcohol and tobacco use in adolescence and mid-adulthood in a community-based sample.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Article
- Tracking of Obesity in Childhood into Adulthood: Effects on Body Mass Index and Fat Mass Index at Age 50.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2020Article
- DDT exposure during pregnancy and DNA methylation alterations in female offspring in the Child Health and Development Study.Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- In utero DDT exposure and breast density in early menopause by maternal history of breast cancer.Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Extensive evidence leads us to expect that health disparities by race and socioeconomic status found in one generation might be reproduced in the next. To the extent that this occurs it is important to assess life course processes responsible for the reproduction. Prospective evidence concerning such life course processes is hard to come by as it requires long-term follow-up of individuals from childhood through adult life. We present data from the Child Health and Development Disparities study that provides evidence relevant to this issue with respect to self-rated health. Mothers and offspring recruited in California's Bay Area between 1959 and 1967 were assessed during pregnancy with follow-up exams of offspring along with in-person interviews with mothers (at offspring ages 5, 9-11, 15-17) and offspring (at ages 15-17, ∼50). Available data allow us to assess the importance of three potential life course pathways in the reproduction of inequalities in self-rated health - socioeconomic pathways, cognitive pathways and pathways involving emerging health itself. As expected we found that race and SES disparities in SRH are reproduced across generations. They are evident in mothers, not strong or significant in offspring at 15-17, but present once again in offspring at age ∼50. Concerning potential pathways, we found that indicators of child health were related to adult SRH and played some role in accounting for race but not SES disparities in adult SRH. Cognitive abilities were unrelated to adult SRH with childhood SES controlled. Childhood SES was associated with adult SRH independent of other childhood factors and is reduced to non-significance only when offspring college attainment is controlled. Race and SES disparities in self-reported health in one generation are re-expressed in the next with strongest support for SES pathways in this transmission.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.