title: [Childhood health and social factors associated to elderly morbidity].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim was to determinate if health status of the elderly in Mexico at the beginning of the 21st. Century is associated to earlier social and health conditions during child-hood, including sex differences.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research was conducted using survey data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) 2001.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Linear regression models point out that life styles during childhood and adulthood are not independent, both influencing morbidity in elderly years.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Parents' education and household characteristics through childhood represent main protection factors; however, this finding cannot be generalized.
authors.affiliation: Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, UNAM, México.
authors.forename: Teresita Elisa
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Pantoja
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ham-Chande
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends*; D010290:Parents; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors