Trends and group differences in the association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality: Implications for understanding education's causal influence

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-18

  Hayward, Mark D ^a   Hummer, Robert A ^a   Sasson, Isaac ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adult mortality; Causal effect; Educational disparities; Functional form; Historical trends; Race and gender differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; GENDER DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY; RACIAL DISPARITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COLLEGE; DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; TECHNOLOGY; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922319252     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.024     Document Type: Article

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