Pathways to Educational Disparities in Disability Incidence: The Contributions of Excess Body Mass Index, Smoking, and Manual Labor Involvement | Zendy

Tarlise Townsend | Zendy; Neil K. Mehta | Zendy

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Pathways to Educational Disparities in Disability Incidence: The Contributions of Excess Body Mass Index, Smoking, and Manual Labor Involvement

Author(s) -

Tarlise Townsend,

Neil K. Mehta

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbaa085

Subject(s) - body mass index , index (typography) , incidence (geometry) , psychology , gerontology , medicine , environmental health , demographic economics , economics , mathematics , computer science , geometry , world wide web

In the United States, educational disparities in disability are large and increasing, but the mechanisms underlying them are not well understood. We estimate the proportion of population-level educational disparities in disability incidence explained by excess body mass index (BMI), smoking, and manual labor.

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