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Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age MortalityUnderlying Features of Social Differences in Health and Mortality

Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality: Underlying Features of Social Differences in... Chapter 2 Underlying Features of Social Differences in Health and Mortality Health is a central category in the analysis of mortality and aging. Except for accidents, murders and suicides, death is the end of a process of increasing age and changing health, usually of declining health. Thus, health is a good measure for the status an individual has in this process in which the tendency of declining health can be modified, i.e., slowed down or accelerated, substantially by social and other ex- ternal factors. In surveys people answer that health is perceived as the most valuable good and the most important for satisfaction (Arber and Ginn 1993). Health is also a social value and an economic resource (Hradil 1994:383). A healthy workforce and a healthy population is a precondition for economic and social well-being; but, more and more, health is also perceived as the result of economic well-being, namely as a purchasable good. Health has always been the outcome of a person’s economic status, at least to some extent. But with the increasing possibility of improving one’s health sta- tus through better nutrition, better environmental conditions and medical treatment (Marmot 1994), more health problems have become preventable and curable. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age MortalityUnderlying Features of Social Differences in Health and Mortality

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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Netherlands 2008
ISBN
978-1-4020-8691-5
Pages
15 –28
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-8692-2_3
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Chapter 2 Underlying Features of Social Differences in Health and Mortality Health is a central category in the analysis of mortality and aging. Except for accidents, murders and suicides, death is the end of a process of increasing age and changing health, usually of declining health. Thus, health is a good measure for the status an individual has in this process in which the tendency of declining health can be modified, i.e., slowed down or accelerated, substantially by social and other ex- ternal factors. In surveys people answer that health is perceived as the most valuable good and the most important for satisfaction (Arber and Ginn 1993). Health is also a social value and an economic resource (Hradil 1994:383). A healthy workforce and a healthy population is a precondition for economic and social well-being; but, more and more, health is also perceived as the result of economic well-being, namely as a purchasable good. Health has always been the outcome of a person’s economic status, at least to some extent. But with the increasing possibility of improving one’s health sta- tus through better nutrition, better environmental conditions and medical treatment (Marmot 1994), more health problems have become preventable and curable.

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: Social Security; Welfare State; Welfare System; Pension System; Supplemental Security Income

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