Journal article
Effects of childhood socioeconomic position on subjective health and health behaviours in adulthood: How much is mediated by adult socioeconomic position?
SK McKenzie, KN Carter, T Blakely, V Ivory
BMC Public Health | BMC | Published : 2011
Abstract
Background: Adult socioeconomic position (SEP) is one of the most frequently hypothesised indirect pathways between childhood SEP and adult health. However, few studies that explore the indirect associations between childhood SEP and adult health systematically investigate the mediating role of multiple individual measures of adult SEP for different health outcomes. We examine the potential mediating role of individual measures of adult SEP in the associations of childhood SEP with self-rated health, self-reported mental health, current smoking status and binge drinking in adulthood. Methods. Data came from 10,010 adults aged 25-64 years at Wave 3 of the Survey of Family, Income and Employme..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Access to the data used in this study was provided by Statistics New Zealand under conditions designed to give effect to the security and confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act 1975. The results presented in this study are the work of the authors, not Statistics New Zealand. The authors gratefully acknowledge the work of Dr Jackie Fawcett in the initial development of the SoFIE Health Study. SoFIE Health is primarily funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand as part of the Health Inequalities Research Programme.