Social inequalities and health among children aged 10–11 in The Netherlands: Causes and consequences

Lucht, Fons van der; Groothoff, Johan W.

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(94)00185-v

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“…Health selection is a process in which healthy people are more likely to move up and unhealthy people to move down the social and occupational hierarchy (36). There is strong evidence on health-related selective mechanisms for labor force mobility -from employment to unemployment (37)(38)(39)(40)(41), from unemployment to re-employment (41,42), in educational achievement (43,44), and in occupational mobility (45). According to the health selection assumption, there may be a tendency for organizations to prefer the renewal of fixed-term job contracts for workers with good health.…”

Section: Self-reported Health Statusmentioning

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Contingent employment, health and sickness absence

Virtanen¹,

Kivimäki²,

Elovainio³

et al. 2001

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Section: Self-reported Health Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contingent employment, health and sickness absence

Virtanen¹,

Kivimäki²,

Elovainio³

et al. 2001

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…14 Finland is a welfare state, where free education up to university level is provided for everyone. In a study on 16 year old Finnish youth, chronically ill adolescents were more likely to continue their studies after the compulsory phase than other young people. A good perceived health status was typical of adolescents who had chosen educational careers leading to the highest social positions in society.…”

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Health related lifestyle in adolescence predicts adult educational level: a longitudinal study from Finland

Koivusilta

Rimpelä

1998

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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Measurements and main results-The outcome variable was the attained educational level at age 24 to 30. Predictive variables described health related lifestyle and health at the age of 16 and 18. Those whose educational level was low at follow up, had in adolescence, a more health compromising lifestyle than those who had reached higher levels. They had placed less emphasis on health promoting behaviours like not smoking, physical exercise, good diet, and dental hygiene. Smoking was the outstanding predictor of attained educational level. Among the health variables, only psychosomatic symptoms predicted high educational levels in girls, and both psychosomatic symptoms and height in boys. Conclusion-Those who reach a high level of education in adulthood, have had a health enhancing lifestyle already in adolescence, while those reaching only a low level, have had a health compromising lifestyle. Health plays only a small part in the prediction of adult educational level. The results suggest that a health compromising lifestyle, adopted already in adolescence, is an important mechanism from which educational health diVerences originate. (J Epidemiol Community Health 1998;52:794-801)

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“…It seems to be that youth, in contrast to childhood (Bor et al 1993, van der Lucht & Groothoff 1995 or adulthood (Lahelma & Valkonen 1990;Ford et al 1994;Kaplan et al 1996;Kunst 1997;Power & Matthews 1997), is characterised more by the absence than presence of class gradients in health. Social class differentials re-emerge quite dramatically after this relative equalisation in youth (West 1988;1990;Bor et al 1993;Rahkonen et al 1995;Tuinstra 1998).…”

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