Predicting later life health status and mortality using state-level socioeconomic characteristics in early life.

ABSTRACT: Studies extending across multiple life stages promote an understanding of factors influencing health across the life span. Existing work has largely focused on individual-level rather than area-level early life determinants of health. In this study, we linked multiple data sets to examine whether early life state-level characteristics were predictive of health and mortality decades later. The sample included 143,755 U.S. employees, for whom work life claims and administrative data were linked with early life state-of-residence and mortality. We first created a "state health risk score" (SHRS) and "state mortality risk score" (SMRS) by modeling state-level contextual characteristics with health status and mortality in a randomly selected 30% of the sample (the "training set"). We then exami

SUBMITTER: Hamad R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5047283 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature