The reciprocal relationship between material factors and health in the life course: evidence from SHARE and ELSA.

ABSTRACT: The widely established health differences between people with greater economic resources and those with fewer resources can be attributed to both social causation (material factors affecting health) and health selection (health affecting material wealth). Each of these pathways may have different intensities at different ages, because the sensitivity of health to a lack of material wealth and the degree to which health can influence economic resources may change. We study the relative importance, in terms of explanatory power, of social causation and health selection, comparing the transitions from childhood to adulthood and from adulthood to old age. We use retrospective survey data from ten European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARELIFE, n

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6250643 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature