Evidence on equalisation in health in youth from the West of Scotland

West, Patrick; Sweeting, Helen

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.12.004

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“…Several other English studies have also documented a relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health that presents in childhood, but which either attens or disappears in adolescence, only to reappear in adulthood (see for example, West,1997;and West and Sweeting, 2004).…”

Section: Using the 1997-2002 Health Surveys Of England (Hse) And The mentioning

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“…1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 than 8 years of age (A. Currie et al, 2007;West, 1997;West and Sweeting, 2004) this hypothesis cannot be tested using data from the rst two waves of the LSAC, in which children only aged up to seven years.…”

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Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from Australia

Khanam

Nghiem

Connelly

2009

Journal of Health Economics

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Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from Australia

Khanam

Nghiem

Connelly

2009

Journal of Health Economics

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“…3,4 Social inequalities in health among adults are well established, but are more debated for the adolescent age period. 5 It has been shown that body mass index (BMI) track from childhood to adulthood. 6 Thus, overweight could be a latent cause of health inequalities among adults, as the consequences of overweight may not manifest into health symptoms until adulthood.…”

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Assessing social differences in overweight among 15- to 16-year-old ethnic Norwegians from Oslo by register data and adolescent self-reported measures of socio-economic status

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Objective: To determine to what extent self-reported and objective data on socio-economic status (SES) are associated with overweight/obesity among 15 to 16-year-old ethnic Norwegians. Design: A cross-sectional questionnaire study on health and health-related behaviors. Subjects: All school children aged 15-16 years old in 2000 and 2001 in Oslo, Norway. Response rate 88% (n ¼ 7343). This article is based on the data from the 5498 ethnic Norwegians. Measurements: Self-reported height and weight were used to measure overweight (including obesity) as defined by the International Obesity Task Force cutoffs at the nearest half-year intervals. SES was determined by register data from Statistics Norway on residential area, parental education and income and by adolescent self-reported measures on parental occupation and adolescents' educational plans. Results: The prevalence of overweight/obesity was low, but higher among boys (11%) than among girls (6%). Parental education (four levels) showed the clearest inverse gradients with overweight/obesity (boys: 18, 13, 10 and 7%; girls: 11, 6, 6 and 4%). Parental education remained significantly associated with overweight/obesity when adding occupation and income to the model for the boys, whereas there were no significant associations in the final model for the girls. Overweight/obesity was associated with a lower odds ratio of planning for higher education (college/university) among boys only. Conclusion: For the boys, parental education was most strongly associated with overweight/obesity, and the association between overweight/obesity and educational plans appears to imply downward social mobility. The relationships between the various SES measures and overweight/obesity appeared more interrelated for the girls.

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“…the interaction term between SES and child ages 6-8 --this interaction is our reference category (covariates are included). We suppose that our outcome of interest is weight-for-age and that the coefficient on SES is negative, which means that income is negatively correlated with weight for the reference age group (ages [6][7][8]. If the interaction term between SES and age 10-12 years is negative, then the effect of SES on weight-for-age is significantly greater (in absolute value) at ages 10-12 than at ages 6-8, which implies that inequalities in weight widen between ages 6-8 and 10-12.…”

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Child physical development in the UK: the imprint of time and socioeconomic status

Apouey

2016

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Objectives. Social health inequalities remain a key policy challenge. The existing literature has not presented a synthetic view on the evolution of inequalities in physical development across childhood.We examine social disparities as children grow older using a range of different outcomes.Study design. Population-based secondary data analysis. Methods.We employ longitudinal data on British children ages 9 months to 12 years from the Millennium Cohort Study (N=13,811-18,987) and focus on multiple child physical measures: weight, BMI, overweight, fat mass, and waist circumference.Results. Higher family income is associated with lower BMI (for females), less body fat, and a smaller likelihood of overweight (for both genders) on average throughout childhood. When income is multiplied by three, the probability of overweight decreases by 2.8 (95% CI -0.041 to -0.016) percentage points for females and by 2.7 (95% CI -0.038 to -0.016) percentage points for males. Social inequalities in weight, BMI, overweight, and body fat significantly widen as children grow older, for both genders. For instance, for females, when income is multiplied by three, the probability of overweight decreases by 1.6 (95% CI -0.032 to -0.000) percentage points at ages 2-3, but by 8.6 (95% CI -0.112 to -0.060) percentage points at ages 10-12.Conclusions. The trajectory of social inequalities, which may reflect the cumulative effect of family socioeconomic status, is a precursor of inequalities in adulthood.

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Evidence on equalisation in health in youth from the West of Scotland

Cited by 191 publications

References 31 publications

Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from Australia

Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from Australia

Assessing social differences in overweight among 15- to 16-year-old ethnic Norwegians from Oslo by register data and adolescent self-reported measures of socio-economic status

Child physical development in the UK: the imprint of time and socioeconomic status

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