社会压力与健康不平等——基于CLHLS数据的实证分析

Social Stress and Health Inequality:An Empirical Study Based on CLHLS

健康不平等长期以来受到学界和社会各界的广泛关注。在控制遗传基因等与生俱来的个体异质性前提下,研究和发现外部社会环境因素对个体健康差异的影响,对于减小健康不平等、维护健康公平具有重要的研究意义。基于中国长寿健康影响因素跟踪调查(CLHLS)的研究结果表明,社会压力与社会经济地位之间存在显著的负向相关性,较高的社会压力所对应的是较低的社会经济地位,反之亦然。并且,社会压力对于健康的负面影响程度在不同社会经济地位群体中也存在差异,社会压力对于社会经济地位较低群体的健康的负面影响更大。社会压力对于解释健康不平等的作用应引起研究者的重视。

Health inequality is a topic that has long been discussed academically and socially.Regardless of innate individual heterogeneity such as genetic genes,the study of disparities of health driven by external social environment factors is the key to understand the the reasons of individual health disparities and thus to reduce the health inequalities of a population.Based on the data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study(CLHLS),we found that there is significant negative correlations between social stress and socioeconomic status,i.e.higher social stress corresponds to lower socioeconomic status,and vice versa.Furthermore,the negative impacts of social stress on health suggest socioeconomic gradients among the different social groups with different socioeconomic status,and the people with lower socioeconomic status suffer more from social stress.The social stress can be an important perspective to explain health inequality and should be bring into the concerns of more related researches.