Social inequalities in self-rated health:A comparative cross-national study among 32,560 Nordic adolescents
Aims: We aimed to estimate the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in self-rated health among Nordic adolescents (aged 11, 13 and 15 years) using the Family Affluence Scale (a composite measure of material assets) and perceived family wealth as indicators of socioeconomic status. Methods: Data wer...
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ftsydanskunivpub:oai:sdu.dk:publications/e16ba014-4beb-4791-bae8-3c5e8c8a7d8e 2024-04-28T08:21:32+00:00 Social inequalities in self-rated health:A comparative cross-national study among 32,560 Nordic adolescents Torsheim, Torbjørn Nygren, Jens M. Rasmussen, Mette Arnarsson, Arsæll M. Bendtsen, Pernille Schnohr, Christina W. Nielsen, Line Nyholm, Maria 2018 https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/e16ba014-4beb-4791-bae8-3c5e8c8a7d8e https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494817734733 eng eng https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/e16ba014-4beb-4791-bae8-3c5e8c8a7d8e info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Torsheim , T , Nygren , J M , Rasmussen , M , Arnarsson , A M , Bendtsen , P , Schnohr , C W , Nielsen , L & Nyholm , M 2018 , ' Social inequalities in self-rated health : A comparative cross-national study among 32,560 Nordic adolescents ' , Scandinavian Journal of Public Health , vol. 46 , no. 1 , pp. 150-156 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494817734733 Adolescents comparative study Family Affluence Scale Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Nordic region perceived socioeconomic status self-rated health article 2018 ftsydanskunivpub https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494817734733 2024-04-03T15:18:45Z Aims: We aimed to estimate the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in self-rated health among Nordic adolescents (aged 11, 13 and 15 years) using the Family Affluence Scale (a composite measure of material assets) and perceived family wealth as indicators of socioeconomic status. Methods: Data were collected from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in 2013–2014. A sample of 32,560 adolescents from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland and Sweden was included in the study. Age-adjusted regression analyses were used to estimate associations between fair or poor self-rated health and the ridit scores for family affluence and perceived wealth. Results: The pooled relative index of inequality of 2.10 indicates that the risk of fair or poor health was about twice as high for young people with the lowest family affluence relative to those with the highest family affluence. The relative index of inequality for observed family affluence was highest in Denmark and lowest in Norway. For perceived family wealth, the pooled relative index of inequality of 3.99 indicates that the risk of fair or poor health was about four times as high for young people with the lowest perceived family wealth relative to those with the highest perceived family wealth. The relative index of inequality for perceived family wealth was highest in Iceland and lowest in Greenland. Conclusions: Social inequality in self-rated health among adolescents was found to be robust across subjective and objective indicators of family affluence in the Nordic welfare states. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Iceland University of Southern Denmark Research Portal Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 46 1 150 156 |
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Adolescents comparative study Family Affluence Scale Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Nordic region perceived socioeconomic status self-rated health Torsheim, Torbjørn Nygren, Jens M. Rasmussen, Mette Arnarsson, Arsæll M. Bendtsen, Pernille Schnohr, Christina W. Nielsen, Line Nyholm, Maria Social inequalities in self-rated health:A comparative cross-national study among 32,560 Nordic adolescents |
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Aims: We aimed to estimate the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in self-rated health among Nordic adolescents (aged 11, 13 and 15 years) using the Family Affluence Scale (a composite measure of material assets) and perceived family wealth as indicators of socioeconomic status. Methods: Data were collected from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in 2013–2014. A sample of 32,560 adolescents from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland and Sweden was included in the study. Age-adjusted regression analyses were used to estimate associations between fair or poor self-rated health and the ridit scores for family affluence and perceived wealth. Results: The pooled relative index of inequality of 2.10 indicates that the risk of fair or poor health was about twice as high for young people with the lowest family affluence relative to those with the highest family affluence. The relative index of inequality for observed family affluence was highest in Denmark and lowest in Norway. For perceived family wealth, the pooled relative index of inequality of 3.99 indicates that the risk of fair or poor health was about four times as high for young people with the lowest perceived family wealth relative to those with the highest perceived family wealth. The relative index of inequality for perceived family wealth was highest in Iceland and lowest in Greenland. Conclusions: Social inequality in self-rated health among adolescents was found to be robust across subjective and objective indicators of family affluence in the Nordic welfare states. |
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Torsheim , T , Nygren , J M , Rasmussen , M , Arnarsson , A M , Bendtsen , P , Schnohr , C W , Nielsen , L & Nyholm , M 2018 , ' Social inequalities in self-rated health : A comparative cross-national study among 32,560 Nordic adolescents ' , Scandinavian Journal of Public Health , vol. 46 , no. 1 , pp. 150-156 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494817734733 |
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