Ohio State nav bar

Social Science Research prints study results by Ohio State and Duke University professors.

February 15, 2012

Social Science Research prints study results by Ohio State and Duke University professors.

Most studies that have examined growing levels of health disparity in the United States have focused on the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in terms of socioeconomic factors such as education and income.
 

But Zheng’s study has found, for the first time, that health disparities have grown dramatically among people in the same socioeconomic groups - often times more than the disparities have grown between groups.
 

"People with the same socioeconomic status differ much more from each other in terms of health than they did 20 or so years ago," said Zheng. "This is an issue that really hasn't been studied before and needs to be examined more closely."
 

Zheng conducted the study with Kenneth Land of Duke University. Their results appear in the March 2012 issue of the journal Social Science Research.

Read the press release, courtesy of Jeff Grabmeier, Office of Research Communications.