Education and adult mortality in middle-income countries: Surprising gradients in six nationally-representative longitudinal surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are large differences in adult mortality across schooling groups in many high-income countries (HICs). An important open question is whether there are similar gradients in adult mortality in middle-income countries (MICs), where schooling and healthcare quality tends to be lower and health-related behaviors are often not strongly patterned by schooling.

Methods

We present one of the first international-comparative studies on schooling differences in adult mortality across MICs using harmonizedlongitudinal data on adults ages 50+ from China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, and South Korea. We use Cox proportional hazards models to estimate differences in the hazard of mortality across schooling groups overall and separately by sex and broad age g

SUBMITTER: Sudharsanan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7475202 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature