Effects of childhood and middle-adulthood family conditions on later-life mortality: Evidence from the Utah Population Database, 1850-2002

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1649-1658

  Smith, Ken R ^a   Mineau, Geraldine P ^a   Garibotti, Gilda ^b   Kerber, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early life conditions; Frailty, life course, middle adulthood conditions; Mortality; Socioeconomic status (SES); UAS

Indexed keywords

CHILD MORTALITY; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FERTILITY; HETEROGENEITY; MORTALITY RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CHILDHOOD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; GENEALOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARENTAL AGE; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; COHORT EFFECT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RELIGION; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL CLASS; UTAH;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 65249184442     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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