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Do social inequalities in health widen or converge with age? Longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, December 2011
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Title
Do social inequalities in health widen or converge with age? Longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland
Published in
BMC Public Health, December 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-11-947
Pubmed ID
22192620
Authors

Michaela Benzeval, Michael J Green, Alastair H Leyland

Abstract

Existing studies are divided as to whether social inequalities in health widen or converge as people age. In part this is due to reliance on cross-sectional data, but also among longitudinal studies to differences in the measurement of both socioeconomic status (SES) and health and in the treatment of survival effects. The aim of this paper is to examine social inequalities in health as people age using longitudinal data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study to investigate the effect of selective mortality, the timing of the SES measure and cohort on the inequality patterns.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Colombia 1 1%
Unknown 78 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 23%
Student > Master 12 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 10%
Professor 4 5%
Other 19 23%
Unknown 11 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 28%
Social Sciences 22 27%
Psychology 6 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 14 17%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 August 2012.
All research outputs
#6,590,632
of 23,314,015 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,940
of 15,200 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#58,478
of 245,770 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#70
of 198 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,314,015 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
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