Anusha M Vable1, Alison K Cohen2, Stephanie A Leonard3, M Maria Glymour4, Catherine D P Duarte5, Irene H Yen6. 1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco; Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Electronic address: anusha.vable@ucsf.edu. 2. Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration, School of Management, University of San Francisco. 3. Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine; Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine. 4. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 5. Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. 6. Public Health, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Evidence suggests education is an important life course determinant of health, but few studies examine differential returns to education by sociodemographic subgroup. METHODS: Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (n = 6158) cohort data, we evaluate education attained by age 25 years and physical health (PCS) and mental health component summary scores (MCS) at age 50 years. Race / ethnicity, sex, geography, immigration status, and childhood socioeconomic status (cSES) were evaluated as effect modifiers in birth year adjusted linear regression models. RESULTS: The association between education and PCS was large among high cSES respondents (β = 0.81 per year of education, 95% CI: 0.67, 0.94), and larger among low cSES respondents (interaction β = 0.39, 95% CI: 0.06, 0.72). The association between education and MCS was imprecisely estimated among White men (β = 0.44; 95% CI: -0.03, 0.90), while, Black women benefited more from each year of education (interaction β = 0.91; 95% CI: 0.19, 1.64). Similarly, compared to socially advantaged groups, low cSES Blacks, and low and high cSES women benefited more from each year of education, while immigrants benefited less from each year of education. CONCLUSIONS: If causal, increases in educational attainment may reduce some social inequities in health.
PURPOSE: Evidence suggests education is an important life course determinant of health, but few studies examine differential returns to education by sociodemographic subgroup. METHODS: Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (n = 6158) cohort data, we evaluate education attained by age 25 years and physical health (PCS) and mental health component summary scores (MCS) at age 50 years. Race / ethnicity, sex, geography, immigration status, and childhood socioeconomic status (cSES) were evaluated as effect modifiers in birth year adjusted linear regression models. RESULTS: The association between education and PCS was large among high cSES respondents (β = 0.81 per year of education, 95% CI: 0.67, 0.94), and larger among low cSES respondents (interaction β = 0.39, 95% CI: 0.06, 0.72). The association between education and MCS was imprecisely estimated among White men (β = 0.44; 95% CI: -0.03, 0.90), while, Black women benefited more from each year of education (interaction β = 0.91; 95% CI: 0.19, 1.64). Similarly, compared to socially advantaged groups, low cSES Blacks, and low and high cSES women benefited more from each year of education, while immigrants benefited less from each year of education. CONCLUSIONS: If causal, increases in educational attainment may reduce some social inequities in health.
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