Socioeconomic inequalities in health dynamics: A comparison of Britain and the United States

Drawing on theory and research on the fundamental causes of health, the life course, and the welfare state, we investigate social inequalities in dynamic self-rated health for working-aged Britons and Americans. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1990–2004) and a mixture latent Markov model to test a theoretical model of health as a discrete state that may remain stable or change over time....