Paradox and privilege: A 55-year follow-up of the mortality of Yale College graduates.
SSM Popul Health
; 2: 327-332, 2016 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29349150
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Two hypotheses were tested 1. People from privileged backgrounds had better survival than those from less privileged backgrounds. 2. The advantages of privilege were vitiated by fraternity membership.METHODS:
A 55-year retrospective cohort study of survival since 1960 of 945 graduates of Yale College followed to 2015.RESULTS:
The survival of graduates of private secondary schools (the privileged group) did not differ from that of public school graduates. However, graduates of private secondary schools who had not joined a fraternity in college had significantly better survival than private school graduates who had joined fraternities and than public school graduates, whether fraternity members or not.CONCLUSIONS:
The benefits of a privileged background in respect of survival were undermined by fraternity membership. It is suggested that both self-selection and substance mis-use may have contributed to the survival difference.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Type of study:
Observational_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
SSM Popul Health
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States
Publication country:
ENGLAND
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ESCOCIA
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GB
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GREAT BRITAIN
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INGLATERRA
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REINO UNIDO
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SCOTLAND
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UK
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UNITED KINGDOM