Health disparities across the lifespan: Meaning, methods, and mechanisms
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Health disparities across the lifespan: meaning, methods, and mechanisms.
Over the past two decades, exponential growth of empirical research has fueled markedly increased concern about health disparities. In this paper, we show the progression of research on socioeconomic status (SES) and health through several eras. The first era reflected an implicit threshold model of the association of poverty and health. The second era produced evidence for a graded association...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0077-8923
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05337.x