SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS AND HEALTH - THE CHALLENGE OF THE GRADIENT
SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS AND HEALTH - THE CHALLENGE OF THE GRADIENT
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DOI：
10.1037/0003-066x.49.1.15
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发表时间：
1994-01-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
SYME, SL
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作者：
ADLER, NE;BOYCE, T;SYME, SL
社会经济地位（SES）一直与健康结果相关，但对可能解释这种关联的社会心理和行为机制知之甚少。研究人员通常控制SES而不是检查它。在研究时，通常只检查较低的贫困水平的社会经济地位的影响。然而，有证据表明，在所有级别的社会地位与健康之间存在分级关联，这一观察结果需要对社会地位可能发挥其健康影响的领域进行新的思考。突出显示了与社会地位和健康之间的分级关系的变量，以提供社会地位和健康终点之间可能途径的示例。还给出了一些新的分析方法的例子，这些方法可以更好地阐明ses -健康梯度的复杂性。
Socioeconomic status (SES) is consistently associated with health outcomes, yet little is known about the psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms that might explain this association. Researchers usually control for SES rather than examine it. When it is studied, only effects of lower, poverty-level SES are generally examined. However, there is evidence of a graded association with health at all levels of SES, an observation that requires new thought about domains through which SES may exert its health effects. Variables are highlighted that show a graded relationship with both SES and health to provide examples of possible pathways between SES and health end points. Examples are also given of new analytic approaches that can better illuminate the complexities of the SES-health gradient.