Heterogeneity in Health and Mortality Risk Among Early Retiree Men

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Early Retiree ◽  
Health And Mortality

Reporting statistics on undernutrition and obesity

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-250
Author(s):  
Stanley Ulijaszek
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Health Reporting ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
Public Health Reporting ◽  
The Status ◽  
Health And Mortality

The epidemiologies of undernutrition and obesity are conducted using standardized metrics in very regulated ways. Bodies are physical entities with economic, social, and medical correlates, and the standardization of bodily measures of undernutrition and obesity have political and economic implications. Most recently, their use has been mostly as proxies for health and mortality risk. This chapter describes the now historical process of bodily standardization through public health anthropometry at both extremes of body size, and examines how public health reporting of undernutrition and obesity informs the discourse of both of them at governmental level, once such measures are given the status of national statistics.

scholarly journals Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly

2012 ◽  
pp. e618-e623 ◽  
Author(s):  
DJ. Marin-Zuluaga ◽  
L. Sandvik ◽  
JA. Gil-Montoya ◽  
T. Willumsen
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Health And Mortality

scholarly journals Examination of the association between mental health, morbidity, and mortality in late life: findings from longitudinal community surveys

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 739-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Burns ◽  
Peter Butterworth ◽  
Colette Browning ◽  
Julie Byles ◽  
Mary Luszcz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Women Poor ◽  
Mental Health Effects ◽  
Health And Mortality

ABSTRACTBackground:Physical health has been demonstrated to mediate the mental health and mortality risk association. The current study examines an alternative hypothesis that mental health mediates the effect of physical health on mortality risk.Methods:Participants (N = 14,019; women = 91%), including eventual decedents (n = 3,752), were aged 70 years and older, and drawn from the Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing (DYNOPTA) project. Participants were observed on two to four occasions, over a 10-year period. Mediation analysis compared the converse mediation of physical and mental health on mortality risk.Results:For men, neither physical nor mental health was associated with mortality risk. For women, poor mental health reported only a small effect on mortality risk (Hazard Risk (HR) = 1.01; p < 0.001); more substantive was the risk of low physical health (HR = 1.04; p < 0.001). No mediation effects were observed.Conclusions:Mental health effects on mortality were fully attenuated by physical health in men, and partially so in women. Neither mental nor physical health mediated the effect of each other on mortality risk for either gender. We conclude that physical health is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than mental health.

Precarious Work in Midlife: Long-Term Implications for the Health and Mortality of Women and Men

2021 ◽  
pp. 002214652110550
Author(s):  
Rachel Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
Health Trajectories ◽  
Aging Adults ◽  
Health And Mortality

Although prior research documents adverse health consequences of precarious work, we know less about how chronic exposure to precarious work in midlife shapes health trajectories among aging adults. The present study uses longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to consider how histories of precarious work in later midlife (ages 50–65) shape trajectories of health and mortality risk after age 65. Results show that greater exposure to unemployment, job insecurity, and insufficient work hours in midlife predicts more chronic conditions and functional limitations after age 65. Characteristics of precarious work also predict increased mortality risk in later life. Findings indicate few gender differences in linkages between precarious work and health; however, women are more likely than men to experience job insecurity throughout midlife. Because precarious work is unlikely to abate, results suggest the need to reduce the health consequences of working in precarious jobs.

An intergenerational and lifecourse study of health and mortality risk in parents of the 1958 birth cohort: (I) methods and tracing

Public Health ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 119 (7) ◽  
pp. 599-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Hyppönen ◽  
George Davey Smith ◽  
Peter Shepherd ◽  
Chris Power
Keyword(s):  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Health And Mortality
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