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Life Expectancy Gain Due to Employment Status Depends on Race, Gender, Education, and Their Intersections

Life Expectancy Gain Due to Employment Status Depends on Race, Gender, Education, and Their... J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (2018) 5:375–386 DOI 10.1007/s40615-017-0381-x Life Expectancy Gain Due to Employment Status Depends on Race, Gender, Education, and Their Intersections 1,2 Shervin Assari Received: 16 October 2016 /Revised: 6 April 2017 /Accepted: 12 May 2017 /Published online: 20 June 2017 W. Montague Cobb-NMA Health Institute 2017 Abstract compared to Whites, men, and those with higher education. Purpose Despite the well-established health effects of socioeco- In stratified models, the association was significant for Whites nomicstatus(SES),SES resourcessuchasemploymentmay (HR = .71, 95%CI = .59–.90), men (HR = .60, differently influence health outcomes across sub-populations. 95%CI = .43–.83), and individuals with high education This study used a national sample of US adults to test if the effect (HR = .66, 95%CI = .50–.86) but not for Blacks (HR = .77, of baseline employment (in 1986) on all-cause mortality over a 95%CI = .56–1.01), women (HR = .88, 95%CI = .69–1.12), 25-year period depends on race, gender, education level, and and those with low education (HR = .92, 95%CI = .67–1.26). their intersections. The largest effects of employment on life expectancy were Methods Data came from the Americans’ Changing Lives seen for highly educated men (HR = .50, 95%CI http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Springer Journals

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Copyright © 2017 by W. Montague Cobb-NMA Health Institute
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Medicine & Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Quality of Life Research; Social Structure, Social Inequality
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J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (2018) 5:375–386 DOI 10.1007/s40615-017-0381-x Life Expectancy Gain Due to Employment Status Depends on Race, Gender, Education, and Their Intersections 1,2 Shervin Assari Received: 16 October 2016 /Revised: 6 April 2017 /Accepted: 12 May 2017 /Published online: 20 June 2017 W. Montague Cobb-NMA Health Institute 2017 Abstract compared to Whites, men, and those with higher education. Purpose Despite the well-established health effects of socioeco- In stratified models, the association was significant for Whites nomicstatus(SES),SES resourcessuchasemploymentmay (HR = .71, 95%CI = .59–.90), men (HR = .60, differently influence health outcomes across sub-populations. 95%CI = .43–.83), and individuals with high education This study used a national sample of US adults to test if the effect (HR = .66, 95%CI = .50–.86) but not for Blacks (HR = .77, of baseline employment (in 1986) on all-cause mortality over a 95%CI = .56–1.01), women (HR = .88, 95%CI = .69–1.12), 25-year period depends on race, gender, education level, and and those with low education (HR = .92, 95%CI = .67–1.26). their intersections. The largest effects of employment on life expectancy were Methods Data came from the Americans’ Changing Lives seen for highly educated men (HR = .50, 95%CI

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