Mortality, lifestyle and socio-economic status

Mortality, lifestyle and socio-economic status.

This paper uses the British Health and Lifestyle Survey (1984-1985) data and the longitudinal follow-up of May 2003 to investigate the determinants of premature mortality in Great Britain and the contribution of lifestyle choices to socio-economic inequality in mortality. A behavioural model, which relates premature mortality to a set of observable and unobservable factors, is considered. A max...

Socio-economic status, health and lifestyle.

The role of lifestyle in mediating the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and health has been discussed extensively in the epidemiological and economic literatures. Previous analyses have not considered a formal framework incorporating unobservable heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a simple economic model in which health is determined (partially) by lifestyle, which depe...

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Psycho-social stress, lifestyle and socio-economic inequalities in morbidity and mortality

Many studies are cross-sectional, making the direction of causality between stress and disease impossible to determine. Most measurements of stress exposures and many health outcomes include a significant subjective component. Both may be influenced by a common reporting tendency generating apparent, though spurious, associations between stress and health. Similarly, an association between stre...

Lifestyle and socio-economic status--verification of data reliability from questionnaire surveys.

The study of reliability was part of a project funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Ministry of Health. The repeatability of answers, 180 questionnaires being sent again after a six week interval, was assessed by two methods: by the percentages of agreement and using the Kappa index. We evaluated 61 questions, which were divided into five sections (general questions, questions on employment,...