It's not lifestyle. It's not income. It's not access to healthcare. Something else is going on. Sydney Spiesel suggests our old Horizon friend happiness.
Posted by Alan Allport at May 16, 2006 05:03 AMHmmm. And what about British men who move to the United States?
Been feeling under the weather lately, Alan?
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at May 16, 2006 05:50 AMOh, after 11 years I have no doubt that for the purposes of this sampling I should be lumped in with the unhealthy Americans.
Posted by: Alan Allport at May 16, 2006 06:42 AMGreat, a study that "curbed diversity" by carefully selecting the minority of the population that in each country was most likely to have held lifelong command over the best resources and the most pleasant social positions.
No bloody point of course asking whether women experience low status and lack of control over their lives. At least for men it's an open question.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at May 16, 2006 06:22 PMAs the final NYT headline is presumed to have it: World Ends: Women, Minorities, Suffer Most.
Posted by: Alan Allport at May 17, 2006 04:20 AM11 years?
Wow. I'd never imagined Alan as Mike Slackenerny.
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at May 17, 2006 06:51 AMCheeky monkey. The Ph.D. has only been a fraction of that time (a growing fraction, I grant you).
Posted by: Alan Allport at May 17, 2006 07:00 AM"But in each group, the men ranged widely in terms of income and educational attainment."
Posted by: Alan Hogue at May 21, 2006 08:32 AMOh, and don't forget:
As a social epidemiologist, Marmot's life's work has been seeking to understand the social determinants of health—for example, the extent to which poverty and inequality in the provision of health services leads to poor health and lower life expectancy.
This is all I can bring myself to say.
Posted by: Alan Hogue at May 21, 2006 08:36 AM