The distributional effects of some proposed Social Security law changes (for example, an increase in Social Security’s early entitlement age (EEA)) are at least partially dependent on the distribution of health and mortality risk throughout the fully insured Social Security–covered worker population. To evaluate these types of proposals, retirement policy analysts typically tabulate the percent...

and participants from the Fragile Families Working Group for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We are also thankful for helpful feedback we received at the Association of Public Policy and Management Fall 2010 Conference. 2 Abstract Research suggests that children from low-income families are more likely to exhibit behavioral problems than children from wealthier families and th...

Nonprofessional caregiving is crucial to effective end-of-life care for patients who wish to die at home. The burden of caregiving may lead to physical illness, emotional distress, financial hardship, and early mortality in the caregiver. Unmet caregiver needs have historically been poorly recognized and incompletely studied. Early recognition of caregiver distress, validation of the caregiver ...

BACKGROUND Financial risk protection and equity are major components of universal health coverage (UHC), which is defined as ensuring access to health services for all citizens without any undue financial burden. We investigated progress towards UHC financial risk indicators and assessed variability of inequalities in financial risk protection indicators by wealth quintile. We further examined ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke is associated with severe economic consequences. This is the first study to investigate in younger survivors the household economic burden of stroke. METHODS A multicenter, 3-year prospective cohort study was conducted of younger (18-65 years) survivors in Australia. Pre- and poststroke patterns of income and hardship were evaluated and multivariable logistic reg...

Previous studies have identified an association between socioeconomic status and sleep health. While some research has studied this association among sexual minority groups, including men who have sex with men (MSM), they exclusively focused on US-based populations. The interplay between the two in shaping sleep health has not been previously examined on populations residing outside the US. Thi...

BACKGROUND Neighborhood-level characteristics such as economic hardship and the retail food environment are assumed to be correlated and to influence consumers' dietary behavior and health status, but few studies have investigated these different relationships comprehensively in a single study. This work aims to investigate the association between neighborhood-level economic hardship, the retai...

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS SUBJECT Neighbourhood social, economic and environmental factors are associated with childhood obesity. Childhood obesity disproportionately impacts those living in low-income neighbourhoods. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS Childhood obesity prevalence is strongly associated with community-level social and economic conditions as measured using a composite Economic Hardsh...

Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study (N = 1,492 couples), we assessed stress, health selection, and couple-crossover hypotheses by examining (1) the bidirectional association between economic hardship and depressive symptoms one, three, and five years after the birth of a child; (2) the association between economic hardship and depressive symptoms on relationship dist...