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Social class and infirmity. The role of social class over the life-course.
Article in SSM - population health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Life course shaping of allostatic load across 17 countries: Evidence from England, the U.S., Europe, China and Indonesia.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Parental socioeconomic position, childhood poverty and healthy aging: retrospective and prospective study of six cohorts across 32 wealthy and developing nations.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Parental socioeconomic position, childhood poverty and healthy ageing: retrospective and prospective study of six cohort surveys across 32 wealthy and developing nations.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Early life adversity and late life dementia in the Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol network (U.S., China, England and Europe).medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Growing up in poverty, growing old in frailty: the life course shaping of health in the United States, England and Europe-a prospective and retrospective study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Integration and completion: life wisdom and happiness of Chinese older adults from a life course perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Physical functioning as a predictor of retirement: Has its importance changed over a thirty-year period in Sweden?European journal of ageing · 2022Article
- Working conditions mediate the association between social class and physical function in older age in Sweden: a prospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
In an aging society, it is important to promote the compression of poor health. To do so, we need to know more about how life-course trajectories influence late-life health and health inequalities. In this study, we used a life-course perspective to examine how health and health inequalities in late-midlife and in late-life are influenced by socioeconomic position at different stages of the life course. We used a representative sample of the Swedish population born between 1925 and 1934 derived from the Swedish Level of Living Survey (LNU) and the Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWEOLD) to investigate the impact of socioeconomic position during childhood (social class of origin) and of socioeconomic position in young adulthood (social class of entry) and late-midlife (social class of destination) on infirmity in late-midlife (age 60) and late-life (age 80). The results of structural equation modelling showed that poor social class of origin had no direct effect on late-midlife and late-life infirmity, but the overall indirect effect through chains of risks was significant. Thus, late-midlife and late-life health inequalities are the result of complex pathways through different social and material conditions that are unevenly distributed over the life course. Our findings suggest that policies that break the chain of disadvantage may help reduce health inequalities in late-midlife and in late-life.
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