How does socioeconomic development affect risk of mortality? An age-period-cohort analysis from a recently transitioned population in China.

ABSTRACT: During the 20th century, the Hong Kong Chinese population experienced 2 abrupt but temporally distinct macroenvironmental changes: The transition from essentially preindustrial living conditions to a rapidly developing economy through mass migration in the late 1940s was followed by the emergence of an infant and childhood adiposity epidemic in the 1960s. The authors aimed to delineate the effects of these 2 aspects of economic development on mortality, thus providing a sentinel for other rapidly developing economies. Sex-specific Poisson models were used to estimate effects of age, calendar period, and birth cohort on Hong Kong adult mortality between 1976 and 2005. All-cause and cause-specific mortality, including mortality from ischemic heart disease (IHD), cardiovascular disease exclud

SUBMITTER: Chung RY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3291084 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature