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Social Determinants Of Health And Functional Disability At Mid- And Late-Life, Carly Pullen
Social Determinants Of Health And Functional Disability At Mid- And Late-Life, Carly Pullen
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The number and proportion of older adults living in the U.S. and globally are increasing. Not only are more adults living longer (Rania et al., 2021), there is evidence that people are
entering late life with more functional disability than in previous generations (He & Larsen,
2014). Social determinants of health include demographic and environmental influences than can impact a range of health outcomes beyond more direct risk factors (Duran and Perez-Stable, 2019). Using data from 243,693 community-dwelling adults who completed the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, we tested the associations among social determinants of health (i.e., age, …