SOCIOECONOMIC

Socioeconomic Health Behaviors

Socioeconomic Health Behavior

Introduction

The goal of this review was to determine the direction of associations between SES and health behaviors during the period of adolescence. Method We searched the PsychInfo and Pubmed databases for studies that measured the association between SES and cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, marijuana use, diet, and physical activity in adolescents between 10- and 21-years old. Results Associations between SES and health behaviors conformed to two patterns. First, reduced SES was affiliated with poorer eating sparingly, less personal undertaking, and larger tobacco smoking. (Chen, 2006)

Second, there was no clear convention of associations between SES and alcoholic beverage utilization or marijuana use. Conclusion Results from this reconsider show that, whereas some associations between SES and health behaviors live throughout adolescence, the associations are not as robust as those in adulthood (Breslin, 2005). Efforts to constrain poor diet, inactivity, and fuming behaviors should goal reduced SES adolescents, while efforts to constrain teen consuming and marijuana use may be helpful over the SES spectrum.  Because African Americans are inclined to have smaller socioeconomic rank than whites, and because many health signs are associated to socioeconomic variables, it is significant when analyzing between-group dissimilarities in health signs to account for socioeconomic differences. (Chen, 2006)

Failure to manage so may lead to unsuitable attribution of dissimilarities to ethnic, racial, or genetic components other than socioeconomic disparities, which in turn may maintain outlooks of racial inferiority as well as misdirect health care study and service dollars. Total death and cancerous infection rates, as well as some chronic-disease risk components, are inversely associated to earnings and learning amidst both African Americans and whites. (Emerson, 2006)

The magnitude of the association seems alike amidst both assemblies, not less than with regard to all-cause mortality, cancer rates, and smoking prevalence. Any differences that exist diminish, or even reverse, after controlling for socioeconomic status, further suggesting that racial and ethnic differences may be related more too socioeconomic factors than to ethnic, cultural, or biologic factors. (Wardle, 2003)

Method

To compile papers on socioeconomic rank and health behaviors in adolescence, we sought the PsychInfo and Pubmed databases for the years 1970-2007. For both databases, we utilized the next as seek periods for SES: socioeconomic rank, communal class, learning, occupation, earnings, and poverty. Our health demeanor seeks period's encompassed personal undertaking, workout, tobacco, fuming, alcoholic beverage, marijuana, cannabis, diet, and nutrition. We furthermore sought the quotation registers of some reconsider items ...