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Article: Understanding the Health Decline in Boomers to Millennials
| Title | Understanding the Health Decline in Boomers to Millennials |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Keywords | Cohort Early life diseases Health decline Labor market Obesity |
| Issue Date | 1-Nov-2023 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Citation | Social Science & Medicine, 2023, v. 337 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Morbidity and mortality are on the rise among Americans from Boomers to Millennials. We investigate early-life diseases and the socioeconomic, psychosocial, and bio-behavioral factors behind this worsening health trend. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Family and Individual Files 1968–2013, we find that the chronic disease index and poor subjective health have continuously increased for Baby Boomers and later cohorts. Early-life diseases, obesity, and shortening job tenure account for about half the health decline across cohorts. Weakening union protection, decreasing marriage, and declining religion only make minor contributions. All other factors, including early life nutrition and family background, adulthood socioeconomic status, physical activity, and smoking behaviors, make negative or non-significant contributions. These findings highlight that even though recent cohorts have better childhood nutrition, family socioeconomic environment,and higher levels of education and income, these advantages have been offset by elevated early-life disease exposure, obesity, and a precarious labor market. We discuss the findings in the context of Case and Deaton's “cumulative deprivation” thesis. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337347 |
| ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.954 |
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| dc.contributor.author | Zheng, Hui | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Dirlam, Jonathan | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Choi, Yoonyoung | - |
| dc.contributor.author | George, Linda | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:20:11Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:20:11Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-11-01 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Social Science & Medicine, 2023, v. 337 | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0277-9536 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337347 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | <p>Morbidity and mortality are on the rise among Americans from Boomers to <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/millennials" title="Learn more about Millennials from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">Millennials</a>. We investigate early-life <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/disease" title="Learn more about diseases from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">diseases</a> and the socioeconomic, psychosocial, and bio-behavioral factors behind this worsening health trend. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Family and Individual Files 1968–2013, we find that the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/chronic-disorder" title="Learn more about chronic disease from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">chronic disease</a> index and poor subjective health have continuously increased for Baby Boomers and later cohorts. Early-life <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/disease" title="Learn more about diseases from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">diseases</a>, obesity, and shortening job tenure account for about half the health decline across cohorts. Weakening union protection, decreasing marriage, and declining religion only make minor contributions. All other factors, including early life nutrition and family background, adulthood socioeconomic status, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/physical-activity" title="Learn more about physical activity from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">physical activity</a>, and smoking behaviors, make negative or non-significant contributions. These findings highlight that even though recent cohorts have better childhood nutrition, family socioeconomic environment,and higher levels of education and income, these advantages have been offset by elevated early-life disease exposure, obesity, and a precarious labor market. We discuss the findings in the context of Case and Deaton's “cumulative deprivation” thesis.<br></p> | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Social Science & Medicine | - |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
| dc.subject | Cohort | - |
| dc.subject | Early life diseases | - |
| dc.subject | Health decline | - |
| dc.subject | Labor market | - |
| dc.subject | Obesity | - |
| dc.title | Understanding the Health Decline in Boomers to Millennials | - |
| dc.type | Article | - |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116282 | - |
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85173623646 | - |
| dc.identifier.volume | 337 | - |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-5347 | - |
| dc.identifier.isi | WOS:001099172300001 | - |
| dc.identifier.issnl | 0277-9536 | - |