Link and Phelan (1995) developed the theory of fundamental causes to explain why the
association between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality has persisted despite radical …

Forty decades of sociological stress research offer five major findings. First, when stressors
(negative events, chronic strains, and traumas) are measured comprehensively, their …

A summary genetic measure, called a “polygenic score,” derived from a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) of education can modestly predict a person's educational and …

Background: Measures of socioeconomic disadvantage may enable improved targeting of
programs to prevent rehospitalizations, but obtaining such information directly from patients …

Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications is based on
a decade of the authors' collaborative work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a …

We examined the life-span development of self-esteem and tested whether self-esteem
influences the development of important life outcomes, including relationship satisfaction …

For a surprisingly large segment of the older population, chronological age is not a relevant
marker for understanding, measuring, or experiencing healthy aging. Using the 2003 …

Drawing from cumulative inequality theory, we examine the relationship between childhood
disadvantage and health problems in adulthood. Using two waves of data from Midlife …

Despite the widespread assumption that racial differences in stress exist and that stress is a
key mediator linking racial status to poor health, relatively few studies have explicitly …

Over the last several decades, epidemiological studies have been enormously successful in
identifying risk factors for major diseases. However, most of this research has focused …