ArticleSSM - population health2017
Links between Primary Occupation and Functional Limitations among Older Adults in Mexico.
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- Economic Resources and Health: A Bi-Directional Cycle for Resilience in Old Age.Journal of aging and health · 2023Review
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- A biopsychosocial examination of chronic back pain, limitations on usual activities, and treatment in Brazil, 2019.PloS one · 2022Article
- Life-course risk factors are associated with activity of daily living disability in older adults.European journal of public health · 2021Article
- Factors Associated With Positive Self-Rated Health: Comparing Older Adults in Brazil and in Portugal.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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- Comparisons of the Association of Family and Social Factors With Functional Limitations Across the United States, Mexico, and South Korea: Findings From the HRS Family of Surveys.Journal of aging and health · 2020Article
- The Sequence of Physical and Cognitive Impairment and the Association with Mortality Among Unimpaired Older Mexican Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020Article
- Determinants of health expenditures during the last year of life of the Mexican population aged 50 or over.Papeles de poblacionArticle
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Abstract
Social inequalities in health and disability are often attributed to differences in childhood adversity, access to care, health behavior, residential environments, stress, and the psychosocial aspects of work environments. Yet, disadvantaged people are also more likely to hold jobs requiring heavy physical labor, repetitive movement, ergonomic strain, and safety hazards. We investigate the role of physical work conditions in contributing to social inequality in mobility among older adults in Mexico, using data from the Mexican Health and Aging Survey (MHAS) and an innovative statistical modeling approach. We use data on categories of primary adult occupation to serve as proxies for jobs with more or less demanding physical work requirements. Our results show that more physically demanding jobs are associated with mobility limitations at older ages, even when we control for age and sex. Inclusion of job categories attenuates the effects of education and wealth on mobility limitations, suggesting that physical work conditions account for at least part of the socioeconomic differentials in mobility limitations in Mexico.
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