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SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

Income, Self-Rated Health, and Morbidity. A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies.

Elena Reche, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek

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Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elena RecheUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research,20246 Hamburg, Germany. elena.reche@stud.uke.uni-hamburg.de.
Hans-Helmut KönigUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research,20246 Hamburg, Germany.
André HajekUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research,20246 Hamburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

If people were asked whether income changes influence self-rated health and morbidity, they would probably answer yes. Indeed, previous studies validated this assumption, but most of them used cross-sectional data and only considered self-rated health as the decisive factor. On the other hand, there are a few studies using longitudinal data, which found a much smaller association between income and self-rated health. In order to give a conclusive overview of the current study situation, this review summarizes and examines studies which use only longitudinal data. In addition to self-rated health, the effects of income on the objective factor of morbidity were also investigated. The review includes a total of 14 papers that use data from seven different countries. It concludes that there is a small, statistically significant, positive impact of increased income on self-rated health, but a negative association between income growth and morbidity. Taking the limitations of confounders, attrition, and selection bias into account, the results may even be insignificant.

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