Elo Irma T, Martikainen Pekka, Aaltonen Mikko
a University of Pennsylvania.
b University of Helsinki.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2018 Mar;72(1):53-73. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2017.1367413. Epub 2017 Oct 10.
Using data from Finland, this paper contributes to a small but growing body of research regarding adult children's education, occupation, and income and their parents' mortality at ages 50+ in 1970-2007. Higher levels of children's education are associated with 30-36 per cent lower parental mortality at ages 50-75, controlling for parents' education, occupation, and income. This association is fully mediated by children's occupation and income, except for cancer mortality. Having at least one child educated in healthcare is associated with 11-16 per cent lower all-cause mortality at ages 50-75, an association that is largely driven by mortality from cardiovascular diseases. Children's higher white-collar occupation and higher income is associated with 39-46 per cent lower mortality in the fully adjusted models. At ages 75+, these associations are much smaller overall and children's schooling remains more strongly associated with mortality than children's occupation or income.
本文利用芬兰的数据，为关于成年子女的教育、职业、收入及其父母在1970 - 2007年50岁及以上死亡率的一小部分但不断增长的研究做出了贡献。在控制了父母的教育、职业和收入的情况下，子女较高的教育水平与50 - 75岁父母死亡率降低30% - 36%相关。除癌症死亡率外，这种关联完全由子女的职业和收入介导。至少有一个子女接受过医疗保健方面的教育与50 - 75岁全因死亡率降低11% - 16%相关，这种关联在很大程度上是由心血管疾病死亡率驱动的。在完全调整后的模型中，子女较高的白领职业和较高的收入与死亡率降低39% - 46%相关。在75岁及以上人群中，总体而言这些关联要小得多，而且子女的受教育程度与死亡率的关联仍然比子女的职业或收入更为紧密。
