This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they … Shapley value decomposition approach, we first show that childhood circumstances may explain 1-23 percent of health inequality …

,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 risk factors in … status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine the association …. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic status as …

its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression … poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result of unhygienic and frequent donations …. Donating plasma is associated with a .83 standard deviation (SD) decline in self-rated health, a .54 SD lower self-rated health …

This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) in the USA, to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

of gift-giving can have a lasting detrimental health impact on their children. Using a primary census-type panel …

of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys (CHARLS 2011, 2013, 2015) and matching cognitive outcomes to CHARLS …), neighborhood cohesion, friendship and health conditions, are significantly associated with both the level of cognitive deficit and …

socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control …. Data came from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2013, involving 17,663 respondents aged 45 and above … smokers was 0.039 (men 0.033; women 0.038). The majority of the inequality could be explained by educational attainment, age …