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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1935–1956.
Published: 25 September 2018
...Laura Rossouw; Teresa Bago d’Uva; Eddy van Doorslaer Abstract In spite of the wide disparities in wealth and in objective health measures like mortality, observed inequality by wealth in self-reported health appears to be nearly nonexistent in low- to middle-income settings. To determine the extent...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1325–1338.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Aubrey Limburg; Jordan Young; Timothy S. Carey; Paul Roman Chelminski; Victoria M. Udalova; Barbara Entwisle Abstract The use of data derived from electronic health records (EHRs) to describe racial and ethnic health disparities is increasingly common, but there are challenges. While the number...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 921–947.
Published: 01 June 2022
... observed sex, racial/ethnic, and educational differences in three key health outcomes into the part explained (in a statistical accounting sense) by loneliness and the part accounted for by other factors. We find little evidence of an important role for loneliness in understanding disparities in mortality...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 731–760.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... Motivated by theories of double disadvantage and leveraging advancements in data collection and measurement, we examine physical and mental health disparities across sexual and gender minority statuses: cisgender heterosexuals, gender minority heterosexuals, cisgender sexual minorities, and people who...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1199–1224.
Published: 07 May 2014
...Stefanie Mollborn; Elizabeth Lawrence; Laurie James-Hawkins; Paula Fomby Abstract This study examines the puzzle of disparities experienced by U.S. teen parents’ young children, whose health and development increasingly lag behind those of peers while their parents are simultaneously experiencing...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 295–323.
Published: 24 February 2016
.... Health disparities across education levels persist and even widen after equalizing thresholds across the two groups. 25 1 2016 24 2 2016 © Population Association of America 2016 2016 Self-reported health Anchoring vignettes Gender health disparities SES–health disparities...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1729–1753.
Published: 12 September 2014
...Jeremy Pais Abstract Cumulative structural disadvantage theory posits two major sources of endogenous selection in shaping racial health disparities: a race-based version of the theory anticipates a racially distinct selection process, whereas a social class-based version anticipates a racially...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1445–1472.
Published: 01 August 2021
... as (1) Millennials, (2) Generation Xers, and (3) Baby Boomers and pre-Boomers. We find no evidence of reduced health disparities by sexual orientation across cohorts. Instead, relative to straight-identified respondents, the health disadvantages of gay, lesbian, and—most strikingly—bisexual-identified...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 127–152.
Published: 23 February 2011
...Jenifer L. Bratter; Bridget K. Gorman Abstract How do self-identified multiracial adults fit into documented patterns of racial health disparities? We assess whether the health status of adults who view themselves as multiracial is distinctive from that of adults who maintain a single-race identity...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 1–24.
Published: 05 December 2018
...Erin R. Hamilton; Jo Mhairi Hale; Robin Savinar Abstract Immigrant legal status determines access to the rights and privileges of U.S. society. Legal status may be conceived of as a fundamental cause of health, producing a health disparity whereby unauthorized immigrants are disadvantaged relative...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 267–292.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Taylor W. Hargrove; Lauren Gaydosh; Alexis C. Dennis Abstract Educational disparities in health are well documented, yet the education–health relationship is inconsistent across racial/ethnic and nativity groups. These inconsistencies may arise from characteristics of the early life environments...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2079–2107.
Published: 01 December 2022
.../ethnicity, and legal status. We also assess the associations between two specific types of state immigration policies—those governing immigrant access to Medicaid and driver's licenses—and health care utilization disparities. We find that state-level immigration policy contexts are associated with health...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 633–657.
Published: 01 June 2023
... to eliminate ethnoracial disparities in population health. My 2022 PAA Presidential Address focuses on race and ethnicity, racism, and U.S. population health in the United States and is organized into five sections. First, I provide a descriptive overview of ethnoracial disparities in U.S. population health...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 933–966.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., the physical health returns to educational attainment are not as large for minoritized racial and ethnic groups compared with individuals racialized as White. Yet, our current understanding of ethnoracial differences in educational health disparities is limited by an almost exclusive focus on the quantity...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 711–738.
Published: 01 April 2021
... an additional 10.5 million adults experiencing pain. Socioeconomic disparities in pain are widening over time, and psychological distress and health behaviors are among the salient correlates of the trends. This study thus comprehensively documents rising pain prevalence among Americans across the adult life...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 159–170.
Published: 01 February 1997
...James P. Smith; Raynard Kington Abstract In this paper we examine disparities in the ability to function among older Americans. We place special emphasis on two goals: (I) understanding the quantitatively large socioeconomic status-health gradient, and (2) the persistence in health outcomes over...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1427–1452.
Published: 15 July 2019
...Diane Coffey; Ashwini Deshpande; Jeffrey Hammer; Dean Spears Abstract This study investigates disparities in child height—an important marker of population-level health—among population groups in rural India. India is an informative context in which to study processes of health disparities because...
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 513–524.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Emmanuelle Cambois; Jean-Marie Robine; Mark D. Hayward Abstract We calculate aggregate indicators of population health for occupational groups to gauge changes in health disparities during the 1980–1991 period. The study is based on the experiences of French adult men in three major occupational...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 169–187.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Kathryn M. Yount; Emily M. Agree Abstract Research on child survival and health has indicated disparities between boys and girls in selected Middle Eastern countries. Health disparities in later life are understudied in this region. In this article, we examine differences between women and men...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 February 2024
... ethnoracial disparities suggest that the socioeconomic determinants driving health disparities prior to the pandemic were amplified and expressed in new ways in the pandemic's first year to disproportionately concentrate excess mortality among racial and ethnic minorities. Corresponding author...
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