2006-12-01
A simultaneous analysis of neighbourhood and childhood socio-economic environment with self-assessed health and health-related behaviours
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Health & Place , Volume 12 - Issue 4 p. 394- 403
Childhood socio-economic environment and neighbourhood socio-economic environment later in life are closely related. However, few studies have considered their effects simultaneously. Using cross-sectional data of approximately 8000 respondents in 86 neighbourhoods in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, we study associations of both determinants with self-assessed health, smoking, alcohol consumption and overweight. Growing up in a low socio-economic environment increased the probability to live a more deprived neighbourhood in adulthood. Controlling for individual socio-economic characteristics, both childhood and neighbourhood socio-economic environment were related to smoking and overweight, but not with excessive alcohol consumption. Associations between childhood socio-economic environment and smoking and overweight are still substantial after controlling for neighbourhood socio-economic environment. Similarly, neighbourhood inequalities in smoking and overweight remain substantial after controlling for childhood socio-economic environment.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2005.03.003, hdl.handle.net/1765/62865 | |
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Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
Monden, L., van Lenthe, F., & Mackenbach, J. (2006). A simultaneous analysis of neighbourhood and childhood socio-economic environment with self-assessed health and health-related behaviours. Health & Place, 12(4), 394–403. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2005.03.003 |