Buttenheim, Alison; Goldman, Noreen; Pebley, Anne R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 71 (2010) 7, pp. 1268-1276
Greater educational attainment is consistently associated with lower mortality and better health, a pattern known as the social gradient. However, recent research suggests that Mexican-origin adults in the US have weak or flat gradients, in contrast to steep gradients for non-Hispanic whites. In...