Titre : | Childhood conditions that predict survival to advanced ages among African-Americans. (1998) |
Auteurs : | S.H. PRESTON ; G.L. DREVENSTEDT ; M.E. HILL ; Population Studies Center. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia PA. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 47, n° 9, 1998) |
Pagination : | 1231-1246 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Survie ; Létalité ; Pronostic ; Facteur socioéconomique ; Enfant ; Homme ; Epidémiologie ; Facteur risque ; Grand âge ; Etats Unis ; Amérique du Nord ; Amérique |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 9iTR0xr8. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This paper investigates the social and economic circumstances of childhood that predict the probability of survival to age 85 among African-Americans. It uses a unique study design in which survivors are linked to their records in U.S. Censuses of 1900 and 1910. A control group of age and race-matched children is drawn from Public Use Samples for these censuses. It concludes that the factors most predictive of survival are farm background, having literate parents. and living in a two-parent household. Results support the interpretation that death risks are positively correlated over the life cycle. |