Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rasmus Hoffmann.
• Editors: Hoffmann, Rasmus
• Contents: Contents: Preface xi 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course: a societal problem and a source for interdisciplinary research 1 Rasmus Hoffmann PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH INEQUALITIES ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE 2 Sociology of the life course and its implications for health inequalities 15 Karl Ulrich Mayer 3 Cumulative dis/advantage processes, nutrition transition, and global metabolic disparities: interrogating the cohort-policy linkage 32 Jessica A. Kelley, Abolade Oladimeji and Dale Dannefer 4 Economic theories of health inequality across the life course 46 Titus J. Galama and Hans van Kippersluis 5 Health as a consequence of genetic variation, gene transcription and life course experiences 59 Martin Diewald PART II METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES FOR THE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES 6 Methods for studying life course health inequalities 75 Scott M. Lynch and Christina Kamis 7 Causal inference based on non-experimental data in health inequality research 93 Michael Gebel 8 Predictive machine learning approaches – possibilities and limitations for the future of life course research 112 Hannes Kröger 9 Instrumental variables in studies of health and health inequalities 127 Rasmus Hoffmann and Gabriele Doblhammer PART III MECHANISMS AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR HEALTH INEQUALITIES AT STAGES OF THE LIFE COURSE 10 Health inequalities in adolescence and their consequences for (emerging) adulthood 145 Marie Bernard, Kristina Winter, and Irene Moor 11 Social inequalities, social capital, and health inequalities in the process of growing up 159 Andreas Klocke and Sven Stadtmüller 12 Work and health inequalities 171 Johannes Siegrist 13 Family relations and health inequalities: grandparents and grandchildren 187 Valeria Bordone, Giorgio Di Gessa and Karsten Hank 14 The effects of retirement on health and mortality by socio-economic group 202 Matthias Giesecke 15 Health inequalities in older age: the role of socioeconomic resources and social networks in context 214 Martina Brandt, Nekehia T. Quashie and Alina Schmitz PART IV LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES ACROSS LIFE COURSE STAGES 16 Early childhood origins of modern social class health disparities 232 Alberto Palloni, Daniel Ramirez and Sebastian Daza 17 The long arm hypothesis: childhood poverty, epigenetic ageing, and late-life health in America, Britain, and Europe 251 Gindo Tampubolon 18 Childhood conditions and health later in life: examples from Sweden 273 Serhiy Dekhtyar and Stefan Fors 19 The influence of early health on educational and socioeconomic outcomes 290 Marco Cozzani and Juho Härkönen 20 Divergence and convergence: how health inequalities evolve as we age 305 Johan Fritzell and Johan Rehnberg 21 Environmental inequality and health outcomes over the life course 325 Christian König and Jan Paul Heisig 22 Infectious diseases across the life course: an inequalities perspective 347 Nico Dragano PART V POLICY PERSPECTIVES AND EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS OF INTERVENTIONS AGAINST HEALTH INEQUALITIES 23 Policy, inequity, and the life course in the US 366 Sarah Petry 24 The role of Social Protection Policies in reducing health inequalities 382 Amanda Aronsson, Hande Tugrul, Clare Bambra and Terje Andreas Eikemo Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (434 pages)
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; Social discrimination; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Medical sociology; Sociology; Reference works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800888166; 1800888163
• Related ISBNs: 9781800888159
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