Health Measures and Health Inequality over The Life Course
Publications
Journal Articles
- Leopold, Liliya and Henriette Engelhardt (2013): Education and physical health trajectories in old age. Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. International Journal of Public Health 58 (1): 23-31.
- Leopold, Liliya and Henriette Engelhardt (2012): "Education and Physical Health Trajectories in Old Age. Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.", International Journal of Public Health. Online first publication (September 2012).
- Leopold, Liliya, and Henriette Engelhardt (2011): "Bildung und Gesundheitsungleichheit im Alter: Divergenz, Konvergenz oder Kontinuität? Eine Längsschnittuntersuchung mit SHARE" (Education and Health Inequality in Old Age: divergence, convergence or continuity? - A Longitudinal Study with SHARE), Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 63(2): 207-236.
- Buber, Isabella, and Henriette Engelhardt (2011): "The association between age and depressive symptoms among older men and women in Europe. Findings from SHARE", Comparative Population Studies 36(1): 103-126.
- Engelhardt, Henriette, Isabella Buber, Vegard Skirbekk, and Alexia Prskawetz (2010): "Social involvement, behavioural risks and cognitive functioning among the aged", Ageing & Society 30(5): 779 -809.
Working Papers
Engelhardt, Henriette; Leopold, Liliya & Jann, Ben: The impact of early and adult life conditions on educational health inequality over the life course: A counterfactual decomposition of survival functions and hazard rates, Discussion Paper Series, No. DP 13/2012. Chair of Population Studies, University of Bamberg.
Buber, Isabella, and Henriette Engelhardt: "The association between age and depressive symptoms among older men and women in Europe. Findings from SHARE(589.0 KB)", Discussion Paper Series, No. DP 06/2010. Chair of Population Studies, University of Bamberg.
- Leopold, Liliya, and Henriette Engelhardt: "Bildung und Gesundheitsungleichheit im Alter: Divergenz, Konvergenz oder Kontinuität? Eine Längsschnittuntersuchung mit SHARE(1.2 MB)", Discussion Paper Series, No. DP 03/2010. Chair of Population Studies, University of Bamberg.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Beyreuther, Linda; Lübke, Christiane & Valentina Ponomarenko (2011): "Subjektive Gesundheit im Verrentungsprozess". In: Engelhardt, Henriette & Schmidt, Christopher: "Probleme und Konsequenzen alternder Gesellschaften. Theoretische Überlegungen, methodische Probleme und empirische Analysen". Bamberger Beiträge zur Soziologie 7. Bamberg: Bamberg Univ. Press, 1-37.
Stefanie Roppelt, Martin Gunsenheimer und Luis von Bernus (2011): "Internationale Vergleichbarkeit subjektiver Gesundheitsmessung". In: Engelhardt, Henriette & Schmidt, Christopher: "Probleme und Konsequenzen alternder Gesellschaften. Theoretische Überlegungen, methodische Probleme und empirische Analysen". Bamberger Beiträge zur Soziologie 7. Bamberg: Bamberg Univ. Press, 38-75.
Content and goals
The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis predicts educational differences in health to increase with age. All previous tests of this hypothesis were based on self-reported health measures. Recent research has suggested that self-reported health measures may not adequately capture differences in key analytical constructs, including education, age, cohort, gender, and country context. This raises doubts about the robustness of previous findings on educational differences in physical health trajectories, as measured by respondents’ self-assessments. The overarching goal of this project is to address this issue by exploring the role of self-reported and objective health measures in research on health inequality over the life course. To reach this goal, the project will proceed in three steps.
Funding
There will be a DFG-funded research project on health inequality called "Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit im Lebens- und Kohortenverlauf in Deutschland". The project starts in 2014 and lasts two years. It deals with health inequality over the life course and across cohorts in Germany.
There will be a subsequent DFG-funded research project on Health Measures and Health Inequality over The Life Course. The Project starts in 2019 and lasts five years.