{"title":"Cohort Morbidity Hypothesis: Health Inequalities of Older Māori and non-Māori in New Zealand.","authors":"Yongjie Yon, Eileen M Crimmins","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes the mortality trends from 1948 to 2008 between Māori and non-Māori populations. Using the cohort morbidity hypothesis, we propose that health disparities between the populations can be partially explained by different levels of early-life exposure to infectious diseases. We conducted regression analysis and found strong associations between early- and old-age mortality for cohorts. Childhood mortality, rather than mid-life mortality, accounted for greater variance in older age. The mortality trend of the 1948 Māori birth cohort is similar to the 1902 non-Māori birth cohort 46 years earlier. Implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":82136,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand population review","volume":"40 ","pages":"63-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326584/pdf/nihms959040.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"New Zealand population review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper describes the mortality trends from 1948 to 2008 between Māori and non-Māori populations. Using the cohort morbidity hypothesis, we propose that health disparities between the populations can be partially explained by different levels of early-life exposure to infectious diseases. We conducted regression analysis and found strong associations between early- and old-age mortality for cohorts. Childhood mortality, rather than mid-life mortality, accounted for greater variance in older age. The mortality trend of the 1948 Māori birth cohort is similar to the 1902 non-Māori birth cohort 46 years earlier. Implications are discussed.