Parental income gradients in adult health: a national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disparities in health by adult income are well documented, but we know less about the childhood origins of health inequalities, and it remains unclear how the shape of the gradient varies across health conditions. This study examined the association between parental income in childhood and several measures of morbidity in adulthood.

Methods

We used administrative data on seven complete Norwegian birth cohorts born in 1967-1973 (N = 429,886) to estimate the association between parental income from birth to age 18, obtained from tax records available from 1967, linked with administrative registries on health. Health measures, observed between ages 39 and 43, were taken from registry data on consultations at primary health care services based on diagnostic codes from

SUBMITTER: Evensen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8247083 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature