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Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age MortalityIntroduction and Overview

Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality: Introduction and Overview This book is about socioeconomic mortality differences in old age and the question of how these differences change with age. Social differences in health and mortal- ity constitute a persistent and almost universal finding in epidemiological, demo- graphic, and sociological research. This general finding, and the question of why health is poorer and life expectancy lower for people with lower socioeconomic status, have been plausibly addressed and discussed by numerous empirical and theoretical studies. However, the diversity of pathways, settings, and mechanisms from social status to health and mortality is still overwhelming. This study starts from the well-established finding of social health differences in order to focus on the interplay between class and health in old age (age 59+). Basically the same principles and factors are involved in old age as in other age groups, but old age additionally poses theoretical and practical problems for un- derstanding the interplay between health and social status. The process of aging is not well-defined in biology nor in sociology. It certainly includes the dimension of physical decline—which is similar to a health decline—and the change of the social situation, which interacts with individual subjective perceptions of the body and the environment. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Netherlands 2008
ISBN
978-1-4020-8691-5
Pages
1 –4
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-8692-2_1
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Abstract

This book is about socioeconomic mortality differences in old age and the question of how these differences change with age. Social differences in health and mortal- ity constitute a persistent and almost universal finding in epidemiological, demo- graphic, and sociological research. This general finding, and the question of why health is poorer and life expectancy lower for people with lower socioeconomic status, have been plausibly addressed and discussed by numerous empirical and theoretical studies. However, the diversity of pathways, settings, and mechanisms from social status to health and mortality is still overwhelming. This study starts from the well-established finding of social health differences in order to focus on the interplay between class and health in old age (age 59+). Basically the same principles and factors are involved in old age as in other age groups, but old age additionally poses theoretical and practical problems for un- derstanding the interplay between health and social status. The process of aging is not well-defined in biology nor in sociology. It certainly includes the dimension of physical decline—which is similar to a health decline—and the change of the social situation, which interacts with individual subjective perceptions of the body and the environment. The

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: Social Inequality; Unobserved Heterogeneity; Socioeconomic Difference; Frailty Model; Mortality Difference

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