Income and Race Differences in Children??s Health in the Mid-1960s

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ID9100035
AutoresLinda N Edwards (City University of New York, autor correspondente), Michael Grossman (0000-0001-9863-4308, City University of New York)
Ano1982
Volume20
Fascículo9
Páginas915-930
Data de publicação1982-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditoraOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198209000-00005
PMID7121097
OpenAlexW2039579035
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas5

This article explores income and race differences in eight measures of the health of children ages 6 through 11 as assessed in the early 1960s. It is shown that both income and race differences in health are much less pronounced than they are in infant mortality and birth weight data. Significant differences are found in the health status of black and white children and of children from high- and low-income families, but these are primarily differences with respect to parent-reported (rather than physician-reported) health criteria and they by no means overwhelmingly favor the white or high-income children. These findings underscore the importance of treating children's health status as multidimensional. In addition, these findings will serve as a bench mark for studies of children's health using data for a more recent period

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Health equity · Race (biology) · Race and health · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Psychology