Childhood neighborhoods and health in later Life : Hospital admissions in Sweden 1939-2015
Hedefalk, Finn LU
; van Dijk, Ingrid Kirsten
LU
and Dribe, Martin
LU
(2025)
In Social Science & Medicine
381.
- Abstract
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... (More)
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.
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- author
- Hedefalk, Finn
LU
; van Dijk, Ingrid Kirsten
LU
and Dribe, Martin
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025-06-04
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Social Science & Medicine
- volume
- 381
- article number
- 118301
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:105007354032
- pmid:40489942
- ISSN
- 1873-5347
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118301
- project
- 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
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 7b90b267-67b5-43d6-b98f-9c8efa83bad4
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- 2025-03-31 13:55:29
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- 2025-06-30 09:43:17
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