Health and Social Determinants Among Boys and Girls in Sweden : Focusing on Parental Background
The majority of Swedish boys and girls have good psychosomatic health. Despite that the risk of mental health problems such as nervousness, feeling low and sleeping difficulties has increased steadily in recent decades. Moreover, previous surveys on health and well-being indicate that boys and girls...
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ftmittuniv:oai:DiVA.org:miun-17247 2023-05-15T17:45:14+02:00 Health and Social Determinants Among Boys and Girls in Sweden : Focusing on Parental Background Hälsa och sociala bestämningsfaktorer bland flickor och pojkar i Sverige : med fokus på föräldrahärkomst Carlerby, Heidi 2012 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-17247 eng eng Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskap Sundsvall : Kopieringen Mittuniversitetet Mid Sweden University doctoral thesis, 1652-893X 135 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-17247 urn:isbn:978-91-87103-39-1 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess bullying involvement discrimination foreign extraction gender WHO-HBSC intersectional perspective health risk behaviour parental background PSP SHC SCOS socio-demography mobbning diskrimination utländsk härkomst genus intersektionalitetsperspektiv hälsoriskbeteende föräldrabakgrund sociodemografi Public Health Global Health Social Medicine and Epidemiology Folkhälsovetenskap global hälsa socialmedicin och epidemiologi Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis text 2012 ftmittuniv 2023-04-07T06:08:13Z The majority of Swedish boys and girls have good psychosomatic health. Despite that the risk of mental health problems such as nervousness, feeling low and sleeping difficulties has increased steadily in recent decades. Moreover, previous surveys on health and well-being indicate that boys and girls of foreign extraction in Sweden are at increased risk of ill health compared to boys and girls of Swedish background. The main aim of this thesis was to analyse health and social determinants among boys and girls of foreign extraction in Sweden. The factors explored in papers I–IV include parental background, family affluence and gender and their associations with subjective health complaints, psychosomatic problems or health risk behaviours. Other included risk factors for ill health were involvement in bullying, low participation and discrimination at school. This thesis takes an intersectional perspective, with ambitions to be able to emphasize the interplay between different power relations (i.e. gender, social class and parental background). Two sets of cross-sectional data were used. Three papers were based on the Swedish part of the World Health Organization’s Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children. The sample consisted of 11,972 children (boys n = 6054; girls n = 5918) in grades five, seven and nine from the measurement years 1997/98, 2001/02 and 2005/06. The response rate varied between 85 and 90%. About one fifth of the included children were of foreign extraction. For the fourth paper regional data from Northern Sweden were used. Boys (n = 729) and girls (n = 798) in grades six to nine answered a questionnaire in 2011 and the response rate was 80%. About 14% of the included children were of foreign extraction. Statistical methods used were chi-square test, correlation analyses, logistic regression analyses, cluster analyses and test of mediating factor. The results showed that girls of foreign background were at increased risk of subjective health complaints (SHC) and boys of mixed background were at ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Northern Sweden Mid Sweden University: Publications (DiVA) |
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bullying involvement discrimination foreign extraction gender WHO-HBSC intersectional perspective health risk behaviour parental background PSP SHC SCOS socio-demography mobbning diskrimination utländsk härkomst genus intersektionalitetsperspektiv hälsoriskbeteende föräldrabakgrund sociodemografi Public Health Global Health Social Medicine and Epidemiology Folkhälsovetenskap global hälsa socialmedicin och epidemiologi |
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The majority of Swedish boys and girls have good psychosomatic health. Despite that the risk of mental health problems such as nervousness, feeling low and sleeping difficulties has increased steadily in recent decades. Moreover, previous surveys on health and well-being indicate that boys and girls of foreign extraction in Sweden are at increased risk of ill health compared to boys and girls of Swedish background. The main aim of this thesis was to analyse health and social determinants among boys and girls of foreign extraction in Sweden. The factors explored in papers I–IV include parental background, family affluence and gender and their associations with subjective health complaints, psychosomatic problems or health risk behaviours. Other included risk factors for ill health were involvement in bullying, low participation and discrimination at school. This thesis takes an intersectional perspective, with ambitions to be able to emphasize the interplay between different power relations (i.e. gender, social class and parental background). Two sets of cross-sectional data were used. Three papers were based on the Swedish part of the World Health Organization’s Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children. The sample consisted of 11,972 children (boys n = 6054; girls n = 5918) in grades five, seven and nine from the measurement years 1997/98, 2001/02 and 2005/06. The response rate varied between 85 and 90%. About one fifth of the included children were of foreign extraction. For the fourth paper regional data from Northern Sweden were used. Boys (n = 729) and girls (n = 798) in grades six to nine answered a questionnaire in 2011 and the response rate was 80%. About 14% of the included children were of foreign extraction. Statistical methods used were chi-square test, correlation analyses, logistic regression analyses, cluster analyses and test of mediating factor. The results showed that girls of foreign background were at increased risk of subjective health complaints (SHC) and boys of mixed background were at ... |
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Health and Social Determinants Among Boys and Girls in Sweden : Focusing on Parental Background |
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Health and Social Determinants Among Boys and Girls in Sweden : Focusing on Parental Background |
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Health and Social Determinants Among Boys and Girls in Sweden : Focusing on Parental Background |
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Health and Social Determinants Among Boys and Girls in Sweden : Focusing on Parental Background |
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health and social determinants among boys and girls in sweden : focusing on parental background |
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Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskap |
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