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How Wealth Links to Health. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 148
Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain how
socioeconomic status translates into different
health outcomes, especially in the context of the
industrialized world. This study sought to examine
the relative merit of two theoretical explanations,
Relative Deprivation and Fundamental Cause, as to
whether material resources or psychosocial
processes matter more in mediating the associations
between SES, health, and longevity. To test the
relative contribution of each perspective, gender-
specific prospective cohorts were constructed using
the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) dataset.
Results indicate relative position is not found to
act as the primary mechanism through which social
conditions influence health outcomes. While
health-related resource utilization as measured is
not found to mediate the SES-health association,
results indicate that resource utilization is linked
to both SES and health outcomes. Further research to
operationalize the proposed mechanisms is
recommended.
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