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Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality / by Rasmus Hoffmann
(The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. ISSN:22151990 ; 25)

Publisher	(Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2008
Edition	1st ed. 2008.
Authors	*Hoffmann, Rasmus author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00167539		Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks (電子ブック)	9781402086922

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Size	XVIII, 244 p : online resource
Notes	and Overview -- Aging and Mortality -- Underlying Features of Social Differences in Health and Mortality -- Concepts of Social Inequality -- Socioeconomic Differences in Health and Mortality -- Change of Socioeconomic Mortality Differences with Age -- Measures -- Data and Methods -- Results on Socioeconomic Mortality Differences (Discussion Included) -- Unobserved Heterogeneity -- Conclusion Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research. This topic is increasingly discussed in the political debate and is among the most urgent public health issues. However, it is still unknown if socioeconomic mortality differences increase or decrease with age. This book provides a comprehensive, thoughtful and critical discussion of all aspects involved in the relationship between socioeconomic status, health and mortality. In a well-written language, it synthesizes the sociological theory of social inequality and an empirical study of mortality differences that has been performed at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock, Germany). The best available datasets from Denmark and the USA, as two very different countries, are used to analyze the age pattern of social mortality differences, the Danish register data covering the whole Danish population between 1980 and 2002. This study is the most comprehensive analysis of socioeconomic mortality differences in the literature, in terms of data quantity, quality, and the statistical method of event-history modeling. It makes important new theoretical and empirical contributions. With a new method it also addresses the question whether the measurement of social mortality differences in old age so far has been biased by mortality selection due to unobserved heterogeneity. "This book signifies an important step forward in theory, empirical data analysis and methodology and an advancement for many disciplines involved in the subject of socioeconomic differences in old age mortality". Prof. Dr. Gabriele Doblhammer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8692-2
Subjects	LCSH:Demography LCSH:Population LCSH:Population—Economic aspects LCSH:Sociology LCSH:Social groups LCSH:Epidemiology LCSH:Geriatrics FREE:Population and Demography FREE:Population Economics FREE:Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging FREE:Epidemiology FREE:Sociology FREE:Geriatrics
Classification	LCC:HB848-3697 DC23:304.6
ID	8000064187
ISBN	9781402086922