Trends in the Relationship between Infant Mortality and Socioeconomic Status: 1950 and 1970

Adamchak, Donald J.; Stockwell, Edward G.

doi:10.1080/00380237.1978.10570307

Cited by 12 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 34 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Therefore, our conclusion is that the lack of an association between childhood health and adult socioeconomic status in older age groups is (partly) caused by a differential reporting bias. The established relationship in older generations between (Adamchak and Stockwell 1978, Antonovsky and Bernstein 1977, Brooks 1975, Clifford and Brennon 1978, Douglas 1964, Morris and heady 1955, Pamuk 1988, Woolf and Waterhouse 1945. This relationship was also found in the Netherlands (Van de Mheen et al 1996, Van Poppel 1982.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 74%

Recall Bias in Self‐reported Childhood Health: Differences by Age and Educational Level

Mheen

Stronks

Looman

et al. 1998

Sociology Health & Illness

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study examines the impact of recall bias on self-reported childhood health. In a population of people aged from 25 to 74 years , childhood health was assessed retrospectively to explore its influence on socio-economic inequalities in adult health. Data were obtained from a postal survey in the baseline of a prospective cohort-study (the Longitudinal Study on Socio-Economic Health Differences in The Netherlands). Childhood health was measured as self-reported periods of severe disease in childhood. Relationships between childhood health on the one hand and adult educational level on the other were analysed using logistic regression models. A negative association between childhood health problems and adult educational level was found in the youngest age group (25-34 years). In the older age groups, however, a lower adult socio-economic status was not clearly associated with more health problems in childhood. In view of what we know about socio-economic inequalities in childhood health in the past, it is likely that the lack of association between educational level and childhood health in the older age groups is (partly) caused by a recall bias. Using simple questions on self-reported childhood health problems, the measurement of childhood health in older age groups will be biased by differential recall between socioeconomic groups. Other possibilities in the use of retrospective data in studying childhood health problems should be explored.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 74%

Recall Bias in Self‐reported Childhood Health: Differences by Age and Educational Level

Mheen

Stronks

Looman

et al. 1998

Sociology Health & Illness

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…To date this research has focused on the relationship between socioeconomic status, more specifically family income status, and levels of mortality during the first year of life. Thus far this relationship has been examined at four points in time centered on the decennial censuses of 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990(Adamchak and Stockwell, 1979Stockwell and Goza, 1996a;Stockwell et al, 1987a). Those studies consistently revealed the presence of a strong and persistent inverse relationship between infant mortality and family economic status in metropolitan Ohio.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

The relationship between socioeconomic status and infant mortality in metropolitan Ohio, 1999–2001*

Goza

Stockwell

Balistreri

2004

Biodemography and Social Biology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Empirical evidence has consistently documented the direct relationship between infant mortality and socioeconomic inequality in the United States and numerous other countries. While the majority of these studies reveal an inverse relationship between socioeconomic level and infant mortality, not even this finding is free from disagreement. Furthermore, the specific nature and magnitude of this relationship has varied over time.This study will examine the relationship between socioeconomic status and infant mortality in metropolitan Ohio by using birth and infant death data centered on the 2000 Census. The analyses presented herein will describe and analyze the relationship between infant mortality and socioeconomic status in metropolitan Ohio in the year 2000. The key finding is that in spite of remarkable declines in infant mortality during the past several decades, most notably in neonatal mortality, there continues to be a pronounced inverse association between the infant death rate and the economic status of a population.

show abstract

“…Infant and child mortality have long been regarded as sensitive indicators of differentials in social and economic well-being (Adamchak & Stockwell, 1978;Frenzen & Hogan, 1982;Haines, Avery & Strong, 1983). For while the general mortality level is strongly associated with socioeconomic development (Kitagawa & Hauser, 1973;Fuchs, 1974;Ruzicka, 1981;UN, 1982a), infant and early childhood (age 1-4 years) mortality is generally affected by parents' (especially mother's) socioeconomic status and mother's background characteristics (Wray, 1971;Caldwell, 1979;Arriaga, 1980b;Federici & Terrenato, 1980;Schultz, 1980;Rutstein, 1983;Gubhaju, 1984;Ruzicka, 1984).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality: On the Basis of the Korean Experience, 1955–73

Kim

1988

J. Biosoc. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

From analysis of the 1974 Korean National Fertility Survey data, the changing patterns of demographic and socioeconomic determinants of infant and child mortality are generalized. The pattern for infant mortality is:(1) in a traditional society demographic factors affect infant mortality more than socioeconomic factors; (2) at the early stage of development, demographic factors are replaced by socioeconomic factors as the main determinants; (3) when the difference in living standards between social classes narrows, the socioeconomic differentials in mortality also diminish; and (4) at the stage of high development the effects of demographic factors remain although the absolute differences are very small. But the pattern of changing determinants of child mortality is nearly the reverse of that of infant mortality.

show abstract

Trends in the Relationship between Infant Mortality and Socioeconomic Status: 1950 and 1970

Abstract: The infant mortality/socioeconomic status relationship was examined in the city of Toledo, Ohio for the years center ing around 1950, 1960 and 1970. Data were obtained from the

Cited by 12 publications

References 34 publications

Recall Bias in Self‐reported Childhood Health: Differences by Age and Educational Level

Recall Bias in Self‐reported Childhood Health: Differences by Age and Educational Level

The relationship between socioeconomic status and infant mortality in metropolitan Ohio, 1999–2001*

Changing Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality: On the Basis of the Korean Experience, 1955–73

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About