Social status, risky health behaviors, and diabetes in middle-aged and older adults

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Wray, Linda A ^a   Alwin, Duane F ^a   McCammon, Ryan J ^b   Manning, Timothy ^c   Best, Latrica E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 33751576440     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/61.6.S290     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Adler, N., Boyce, T., Chesney, M. A., Cohen, S., Folkman, S., Kahn, R. L., et al. (1994). Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient. American Psychologist, 49, 15-24.
2. Allison, P. D. (1999). Comparing logit and probit coefficients across groups. Sociological Methods & Research, 28, 186-208.
3. Alwin, D. F., & Wray, L. A. (2005). A life-spun developmental perspective on social status and health. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 60B(Special Issue II), 7-14.
4. Best, L. E. (2004). Racial differences in the prevalence of diabetes. Unpublished master's thesis. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
5. Blackwell, D. L., Hayward, M. D., & Crimmins, E. M. (2001). Does childhood health affect chronic morbidity in later life? Social Science & Medicine, 52, 1269-1284.
6. Blaum, C. S., Ofstedal, M. B., Langa, K. M., & Wray, L. A. (2003). Functional status and health outcomes in older adults with diabetes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 51, 745-753.
7. Brancati, F. L., Whelton, P. K., Kuller, L. H., & Klag, M. J. (1996). Diabetes mellitus, race, and socioeconomic status: A population-based study. Annals of Epidemiology. 6, 67-73.
8. Crimmins, E. M. (2005). Socioeconomic differentials in mortality and health at the older ages. Genus. 61, 163-176.
9. Dannefer, D. (1987). Aging as intracohort differentiation: Accentuation, the Matthew effect, and the life course. Sociological Forum. 2, 211-236.
10. Feinstein, J. S. (1993). The relationship between socioeconomic status and health: A review of the literature. Milbank Quarterly. 71, 279-322.
11. Ferraro, K. F., & Farmer, M. M. (1996). Double jeopardy, aging as leveler, or persistent health inequality? A longitudinal analysis of White and Black Americans. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 51B, S319-S328.
12. Fisher, G. C., Faul, J. D., Weir, D. R., & Wallace, R. B. (2005). Documentation of chronic disease measures in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS/AHEAD). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Survey Research Center.
13. Franks, M. H., Pienta, A. M., & Wray, L. A. (2002). It takes two: Marriage and smoking cessation in the middle years. Journal of Aging and Health. 14, 336-354.
14. Harris, M. I. (1998). Diabetes in America: Epidemiology and scope of the problem. Diabetes Care. 21(Suppl. 3). C11-C14.
15. Hayward, M. D., Crimmins, B. M., Miles, T., & Yang, Y. (2000). The significance of socioeconomic status in explaining the race gap in chronic health conditions. American Sociological Review. 65, 910-930.
16. Hayward, M. D., & Gorman, B. K. (2004). The long arm of childhood: The influence of early-life social conditions on men's mortality. Demography. 41, 87-107.
17. Hayward, R. A., Manning, W. G., Kaplan, S. H., Wagner, E. H., & Greenfield, S. (1997). Starting insulin therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes. Journal of the American Medical Association. 278, 1663-1669.
18. House, J. S., Lepkowski, J. M., Kinney, A. M., Mero, R. P., Kessler, R. C., & Herzog, A. R. (1994). The social stratification of aging and health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 35, 213-234.
19. Juster, F. T., & Suzman, R. (1995). An overview of the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Human Resources. 30, S7-S56.
20. Kuh, D., Power, C., Blane, D., & Bartley, M. (1997). Social pathways between childhood and adult health. In D. Kuh & Y. Ben-Shlomo (Eds.). A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology (pp. 169-200). Oxford. England: Oxford University Press.
21. Lantz, P. M., House, J. S., Lepkowski, J. M., Williams, D. R., Mero, R. P., & Chen, J. (1998). Socioeconomic factors, health behaviors, and mortality: Results from a nationally-representative sample of U.S. adults. Journal of the American Medical Association. 279, 1703-1708.
22. Lantz, P. M., Lynch, J. W., House, J. S., Lepkowski, J. M., Mero, R. P., Musick, M. A., et al. (2001). Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of U. S. adults: The role of health-risk behaviors. Social Science & Medicine. 53, 29-40.
23. Lu, N., Samuels, M. E., & Wilson, R. (2004). Socioeconomic differences in health: How much do health behaviors and health insurance coverage account for? Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 15, 618-630.
24. Lynch, J. W., Kaplan, G. A., & Salonen, J. T. (1997). Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviors and psychological characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse. Social Science & Medicine. 44, 809-819.
25. Marmot, M. G., & Shipley, M. J. (1996). Do socioeconomic differences in mortality persist after retirement? 25 year follow up of civil servants from the first Whitehall Study. British Medical Journal. 313, 1177-1180.
26. McEwen, B. S., & Seeman, T. (1999). Protective and damaging effects of mediators of stress: Elaborating and testing the concepts of allostasis and allostatic load. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 896, 30-47.
27. Mirowsky, J., & Ross, C. (2003). Education, social status and health. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
28. Moen, P. (2003). The gendered life course. In R. H. Binstock & L. K. George (Eds.), Handbook of aging and the social sciences (5th ed., pp. 179-196). New York: Academic Press.
29. National Research Council. (2003). Racial and ethnic differentials in health in late life. Washington. DC: National Academies Press.
30. Oakes, J. M., & Rossi, R. H. (2003). The measurement of SES in health research: Current practice and steps toward a new approach. Social Science & Medicine. 56, 769-784.
31. O'Rand, A. M. (1996). The precious and the precocious: Understanding cumulative disadvantage and cumulative advantage over the life course. The Gerontologist. 36, 230-238.
32. Preston, S. H., Hill, M. E., & Drevenstedt, G. L. (1998). Childhood conditions that predict survival to advanced ages among African-Americans. Social Science & Medicine, 47, 1231-1246.
33. Ross, C. E., & Mirowsky, J. (2000). Does medical insurance contribute to the socioeconomic differentials in health? Milbank Quarterly. 78, 291-321.
34. Ross, C. E., & Wu, C. (1995). The links between education and health. American Sociological Review, 60, 719-745.
35. Ross, C. E., & Wu, C. (1996). Education, age, and the cumulative advantage of health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 37, 104-120.
36. Soldo, B. J., Hurd, M. D., Rodgers, W. L., & Wallace, R. B. (1997). Asset and health dynamics among the oldest old: An overview of the AHEAD study. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 52B, S1-S20.
37. Turner, C. F., Smith, T. K., Fitterman, L. K., Reilly, T., Pate, K., Will, M. B., et al. (1997). The quality of health data obtained in a new survey of elderly Americans: A validation study of the proposed Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR). Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 52B, S49-S58.
38. Umberson, D. (1987). Family status and health behaviors: Social control as a dimension of social integration. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 28, 306-319.
39. Umberson, D. (1992). Gender, marital status and the social control of health behavior. Social Science & Medicine. 34, 907-917.
40. Umberson, D., Williams, K., Powers, D. A., Liu, H., & Needham, B. (2006). You make me sick: Marital quality and health over the life course. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 47, 1-16.
41. Wadsworth, M. E. J. (1997). Health inequalities in the life course perspective. Social Science & Medicine. 44, 859-869.
42. Wallace, R. B., & Herzog, A. R. (1995). Overview of the health measures in the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Human Resources. 30(Suppl.). S84-S107.
43. Whitfield, K. E., Weidner, G., Clark, R., & Anderson, N. B. (2002). Sociodemographic diversity and behavioral medicine. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 70, 463-481.
44. Williams, D. R. (1990). Socioeconomic differentials in health: A review and redirection. Social Psychological Quarterly. 53, 81-99.
45. Williams, D. R., & Collins, C. (1995). U.S. socioeconomic and racial differences in health. Annual Review of Sociology. 21, 349-386.
46. Winkleby, M. A., Fortmann, S. P., & Barrett, D. C. (1990). Social class disparities in risk factors for disease: Eight-year prevalence patterns by level of education. Preventive Medicine. 19, 1-12.
47. Wray, L. A., Alwin, D. F., & MeCammon, R. J. (2005). Social status and risky health behaviors: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 60B, S85-S92.
48. Wray, L. A., & Blaum, C. S. (2001). Explaining the role of sex on disability: A population-based study. The Gerontologist. 41, 499-510.
49. Wray, L. A., Blaum, C. S., Ofstedal, M. B., & Herzog, A. R. (2004). Diabetes diagnosis and weight loss in middle-aged adults. Journal of Research on Aging. 26, 62-81.
50. Wray, L. A., Herzog, A. R., Willis, R. J., & Wallace, R. B. (1998). The impact of education and heart attack on smoking cessation in middle-aged adults. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 39, 271-294.
51. Wray, E. A., Ofstedal, M. B., Langa, K. M., & Blaum, C. S. (2005). The effect of diabetes on disability in middle-aged and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. 60A, 1206-1211.