Martin Dribe
Professor
Childhood neighborhoods and cause-specific adult mortality in Sweden 1939–2015
Author
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
Links
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