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Martin Dribe. Photo.

Martin Dribe

Professor

Martin Dribe. Photo.

Childhood neighborhoods and cause-specific adult mortality in Sweden 1939–2015

Author

  • Finn Hedefalk
  • Ingrid Kirsten van Dijk
  • Martin Dribe

Summary, in English

The socioeconomic health gradient has widened in recent decades. We study how childhood socioeconomic neighborhood conditions influence gender- and cause-specific adult mortality. Using uniquely detailed geocoded longitudinal microdata for a Swedish town (1939–1967), with a follow-up in national registers (1968–2015), we apply Cox proportional hazards models and estimate individual neighborhoods at the address-level. We find that childhood neighborhood social class has a lasting influence on male adult mortality (ages 40–69), even when adjusting for class position, class origin, neighborhood physical attributes and school districts. This impact was particularly pronounced for preventable causes of death, pointing to lifestyle and behavioral factors as important mechanisms.

Department/s

  • Centre for Economic Demography
  • Department of Economic History
  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health

Publishing year

2023-10-25

Language

English

Publication/Series

Health & Place

Volume

84

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economic History

Keywords

  • Neighborhood effects
  • Adult cause-specific mortality
  • Life-course
  • Individual neighborhoods
  • Cox proportional hazards
  • Same-aged neighbors

Status

Published

Project

  • The long reach of the neighborhood: Health, education and earnings in Landskrona, Sweden, 1904-2015

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1873-2054