Childhood socioeconomic position and healthy ageing: results from five harmonised cohort studies in the ATHLOS consortium.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) has been identified as a key determinant of health. However, earlier literature is largely from high-income countries and provides limited evidence on the prolonging impacts of childhood disadvantage on healthy ageing across diverse settings and populations. The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between childhood SEP and healthy ageing across multiple countries and the mediation effects of adult SEP, individual education and wealth, on these associations.

Methods

Using the harmonised dataset of five cohort studies in the Ageing Trajectories of Health-Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS) project, this study was based on 57 956 people aged ≥50 years (women: 53.3%) living in China, Finland, UK,

SUBMITTER: Wu YT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11865732 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature