Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Diabetes among Urban Latin American Adults

Although socioeconomic status has been positively linked to health, little is known of how socioeconomic disadvantage experienced in both childhood and adulthood influence diabetes diagnosis in lesser developed countries. With particular emphasis on the elderly, this paper uses Latin American data from the SABE project to test whether adult SES disadvantage, net of childhood SES disadvantage, is predictive of being diagnosed with diabetes. This paper also explores how location plays a role in the relationship between SES and diabetes by providing country-specific analyses. Preliminary data suggests that the diabetes prevalence differs in the four countries studied (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay). Logistic regression will be used to analyze the data further.