儿童时期的经济状况与健康：梯度的起源。

Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient.

机构信息

Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Department of Economics and Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL.

出版信息

Am Econ Rev. 2002;92(5):1308-34. doi: 10.1257/000282802762024520.

DOI:10.1257/000282802762024520

PMID:29058397

Abstract

The well-known positive association between health and income in adulthood has antecedents in childhood. Not only is children’s health positively related to household income, but the relationship between household income and children's health becomes more pronounced as children age. Part of the relationship can be explained by the arrival and impact of chronic conditions. Children from lower income households with chronic conditions have worse health than do those from higher-income households. The adverse health effects of lower income accumulate over children’s lives. Part of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status may work through the impact of parents' income on children’s health.

摘要

成年期健康与收入之间的显著正相关关系在儿童期就已存在。儿童健康不仅与家庭收入呈正相关，而且随着儿童年龄的增长，家庭收入与儿童健康之间的关系更加明显。这种关系的一部分可以用慢性病的出现和影响来解释。患有慢性病的低收入家庭的孩子比高收入家庭的孩子健康状况更差。低收入对健康的不利影响会在孩子的一生中积累。社会经济地位的代际传递的一部分可能是通过父母收入对孩子健康的影响来实现的。