Journal article
Association between children's experience of socioeconomic disadvantage and adult health: a life-course study
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Research into social inequalities in health has tended to focus on low socioeconomic status in adulthood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that children's experience of socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with a wide range of health risk factors and outcomes in adult life.
METHODS: We studied an unselected cohort of 1000 children (born in New Zealand during 1972-73) who had been assessed at birth and ages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and …
Authors
Poulton R; Caspi A; Milne BJ; Thomson WM; Taylor A; Sears MR; Moffitt TE
Journal
The Lancet, Vol. 360, No. 9346, pp. 1640–1645
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2002
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(02)11602-3
ISSN
0140-6736