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Ingrid van Dijk . foto

Ingrid van Dijk

Universitetslektor

Ingrid van Dijk . foto

Childhood neighborhoods and health in later Life : Hospital admissions in Sweden 1939-2015

Författare

  • Finn Hedefalk
  • Ingrid Kirsten van Dijk
  • Martin Dribe

Summary, in English

We study the association between childhood neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) (ages 1-15) and hospitalization with preventable-type disease in adulthood, using geocoded longitudinal microdata for a Swedish city (1939-1967) linked to national registers (1973-2015). Observing the full residential histories at the address level for the entire population, we construct dynamic and cumulative individual neighborhoods and measure SES of parents to similarly-aged neighboring children. In the nationwide follow-up, we measure later-life health (age group 45-54) using information on hospital admissions grouped by disease preventability. Our findings show that growing up in the highest-status neighborhoods lowers the risk of hospital admission in adulthood for men, but not for women. The associations do not differ by preventability and persist after including a range of control variables. The findings demonstrate the importance of childhood neighborhood conditions for health throughout the life course.

Avdelning/ar

  • Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
  • Centrum för ekonomisk demografi
  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health

Publiceringsår

2025

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Social Science & Medicine

Volym

381

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Economic History

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • The long reach of the neighborhood: Health, education and earnings in Landskrona, Sweden, 1904-2015
  • Wallenberg Scholar (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation)
  • Socioeconomic Segregation – The Impact of Neighborhoods, Schools and Policy Across the Life Course
  • The long reach of the neighborhood: Health, education and earnings in Landskrona, Sweden, 1904-2015 (Handelsbanken)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1873-5347