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Mortality and morbidity drivers of international health inequality

WEBGlobal health inequalities are undergoing profound transformations. On the one hand, inequality in life expectancy between countries has resumed its downward …

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Self-rated health trends by gender and race in the USA, 1972-2018

WEBJason L. Cummings explores U.S. trends in self-rated health inequalities over the last five decades (1972-2018). While survival, or differential survival, is a …

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Racial disparities in disability and in long and happy living in

WEBTrends in American longevity and physical disability. In 1970, life expectancy at birth in the US was approximately eight years longer for Whites than for Blacks: 71.7 …

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Life expectancy variation 2019–2021 and the role of Covid-19

WEBPublic health implications. The study of life expectancy makes it possible to analyse and compare the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on mortality in different …

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Explaining disability trends in the United States, 1963-2015

WEBThe US National Health Interview Survey is the world’s longest running survey of health data, dating back to 1957. Annual microdata have been preserved from …

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Smoking inequalities in France and the United States

WEBThe Health Consequences Of Smoking: 50 Years Of Progress: A Report Of The Surgeon General. Atlanta: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for …

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Comparing mortality variability between the United States …

WEBMortality variability. Relative to peer countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States has higher age …

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The ultimate inequality: vast mortality disparities across U.S. regions

WEBThe ultimate form of health inequality is death. Combining the concepts of region, division, and urban-rural residence in the U.S., Wesley James, Jeralynn …

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Immigrant-native health disparities in adolescence: the …

WEBImmigrants’ health tends to deteriorate over successive generations, a phenomenon known as “negative health assimilation”. Less is known about what …

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The ‘Healthy Immigrant Effect’: the role of educational selectivity

WEBThe Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) refers to the recurring finding that people who have just moved to a new country have better health and lower death rates than …

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Disability prevalence among Hispanic immigrants in the US

WEBDisability in old age is known to be greater among Hispanic immigrants than US-born populations. However, little is known about immigrant disability at younger …

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Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in health after age 50

WEBFI scores were expressed in the range 0-100. High values indicate higher frailty and therefore a poor health status. While the observed minimum of the FI was 0 …

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Health at older ages: childless adults not always worse off than

WEBThe health gap between parents and non-parents in later life depends also on several contextual factors including cultural norms about the meaning of family and …

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Reproductive-age morbidities and their impact on women's health …

WEBThis study utilised Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 23 SSA countries collected between 2010 and 2019 to estimate the prevalence of these …

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Longer lives, poorer health in England

WEBStephen Jivraj, Alissa Goodman, Benedetta Pongiglione and George Ploubidis find that, among working-age adults in England, later-born cohorts tend to have higher prevalence of various indicators of poor health and that healthy life expectancy has increased at a slower pace than overall length of life over the past decades. This is a …

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A big challenge for the 21st century: will obesity cut the gains of

WEBWith the advent of vaccinations, better health promotion and care, and improvement in standards of living, fewer newborns and young children have died, while …

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Healthy grandparenthood: how long is it, and how has it changed

WEBIn 1992, American men could expect to be grandfathers for a total of 18.5 years, and healthy for 13.2 of these years, and women for 23 years, and 15.9 years, …

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Prevalence of chronic diseases associated with increased risk …

WEBOverall, only 27% of Filipinos receive job-related health care insurance. Protecting vulnerable groups amidst the pandemic. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Philippines was reported on 30 January 2020 (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020b). Since then, the number of cases has steadily increased, reaching its peak in …

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Population density interacts with sanitation to predict child health

WEBIn recent research, we use Demographic and Health Surveys to assess the extent to which the associations between population density and child health outcomes, …

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Birth spacing and long-term health and mortality

WEBThe health benefits of breastfeeding are well known. Furthermore, having closely spaced siblings might also affect the degree of parental attention, supervision, and investment in each child. For example, less parental attention and supervision might increase the risk of a child having a poor diet, developing unhealthy habits, and being at …

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Longer birth intervals can reduce infant mortality in poor countries

WEBRecent work on wealthy populations has called into question long-standing conclusions about the importance of birth spacing for infant health. Using data from 77 …

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