Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health and Subjective Well-Being: Dimensions and Mechanisms

Dear Colleagues,

As one of the sustainable development goals, ensuring healthy living and well-being for all is at the center of the global health policy agenda. Although public health, social and medical sciences have intensively studied the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health/subjective well-being (SWB), the evidence is less clear in low- and middle-income countries. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified existing SES-related health inequalities, and may exacerbate such inequalities by having a far greater impact on vulnerable populations than their better-off counterparts. Concurrently, despite the significant efforts that have been expended on identifying the SES-health/SWB gradient, its possible mechanisms remain unclear. Furthermore, different measures of SES may operate through different channels. To mitigate health/SWB inequalities across socioeconomic dimensions, policy makers need to comprehensively understand the nature of this gradient and its underlying pathways.

Accordingly, the focus of this Special Issue is on issues related to SES-health gradient and its underlying mechanisms, both in and between developing and developed countries, and the impacts of sociodemographics on human SWB, which is measured both objectively and subjectively. We are also interested in studies that explore the relationship between SES in childhood and health at older ages, as well as potential policies and interventions to improve human health and SWB through interdisciplinary research from economics, demography, public health, and epidemiology, among others.

Dr. Peng Nie
Guest Editor

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