Journal article
The role of city income inequality, sex ratio and youth mortality rates in the effect of violent victimization on health-risk behaviors in Brazilian adolescents
Abstract
This study integrates insights from evolutionary psychology and social epidemiology to present a novel approach to contextual effects on health-risk behaviors (unprotected sex, drunkenness episodes, drugs and tobacco experimentation) among adolescents. Using data from the 2012 Brazilian National Survey of Adolescent Health (PeNSE), we first analyzed the effects of self-reported violent victimization on health-risk behaviors of 47,371 …
Authors
de Oliveira Ramos D; Daly M; Seidl-de-Moura ML; Nadanovsky P
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 181, , pp. 17–23
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
May 2017
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.057
ISSN
0277-9536