TY  - JOUR
AU  - Smith,James
TI  - Diabetes and the Rise of the SES Health Gradient
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12905
PY  - 2007
Y2  - February 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12905
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12905.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James Smith
Labor and Pop Studies Program
The RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA   90406
Tel: 310-451-6925
E-Mail: smith@rand.org
M3  - presented at "Retirement Research", October 19-22, 2006
AB  - This paper investigates the salient diabetes prevalence patterns across key SES indicators, and how they changed over time.  The investigation spans both the conventional concept of diagnosed diabetes and a more comprehensive measure including those whose diabetes is undiagnosed.  By doing so, I separate the distinct impact of covariates on disease onset, better self-management, and the probability of disease diagnosis. Emphasis is given to SES correlates of undiagnosed diabetes and how these changed as those with undiagnosed diabetes plummeted over the last 25 years. I estimate the differential ability by education to successful self-manage diabetes, especially when disease self-management became more complicated. 
ER  -