Socioeconomic and Gender Health Disparities in Diabetes

The Lower Middle Income Case of Ghana

Bibliographic Data

ID2291895
AuthorsHelena E Dagadu (Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume89
Issue3
Pages453-481
Publication date2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soin.12283
OpenAlexW2943584334
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited56

While literature theorizing the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), gender, and health outcomes is robust in high-income countries, there is less scholarship examining how SES affects men and women in lower middle income countries (LMICs). Focusing on the LMIC case of Ghana, I use Wave 1 of the World Health Organization Study on Global Aging and Adult Health (SAGE) to examine the relationship between SES and diabetes among Ghanaian women and men. Specifically, I examine how key SES measures such as educational attainment, employment status, and income singly and collectively predict the odds of diabetes for Ghanaian men and women. I also examine the explanatory value of the reversal hypothesis, which posits that those of high SES experience higher rates of non-communicable diseases. Overall, I find that while Ghanaian men experience increased odds of diabetes with increased education, Ghanaian women have higher odds of diabetes compared to men regardless of educational attainment. Understanding health patterns in LMICs like Ghana is important for sociological inquiry on health disparities seeking to incorporate more global perspectives

Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Logistic regression · Odds · Population · Scholarship · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Gerontology

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