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Education, income, and functional limitation transitions among American adults: contrasting onset and progression

Author(s) -

Zachary Zimmer,

James S. House

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyg254

Subject(s) - psychosocial , socioeconomic status , medicine , gerontology , multinomial logistic regression , personal income , demography , psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , population , economics , sociology , machine learning , computer science , economic growth

Although a robust association between socioeconomic status and health has been shown in past research, the processes that explain the connection are not well understood. This paper seeks to advance such understanding in two ways, first by attending to the distinction between onset of a functional health problem and its progression, and second by addressing whether and how education and income relate differently to the onset versus progression of functional health problems.

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