Changes in asset-based wealth across the life course in birth cohorts from five low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Temporally-harmonized asset-based measures of wealth can be used to study the association of life-course wealth exposures in the same scale with health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The within-individual longitudinal stability of asset-based indices of wealth in LMICs is poorly understood.

Methods

Using data from five birth cohorts from three continents, we developed temporally-harmonized asset indices over the life course through polychoric principal component analysis of a common set of assets collected consistently over time (18 years in Brazil to 50 years in Guatemala). For each cohort, we compared the harmonized index to cross-sectional indices created using more comprehensive asset measures using rank correlations. We evaluated the ra

SUBMITTER: Varghese JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8637637 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature