Exploring the Relationship Between a Child's Socioeconomic Status, and Their Health Trajectory as an Adult

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Title

Exploring the Relationship Between a Child's Socioeconomic Status, and Their Health Trajectory as an Adult

Description

Research indicates that socioeconomic status is one of the most powerful risk factors for poor health outcomes. This work focuses on the effect of parental socioeconomic status (SES) on a child's health by exploring the relationship between a child's socioeconomic status and their health trajectory as an adult. This work will expand on research done in Health Science HLSC 285: Health and Society. Peer-reviewed articles between 2008 and 2014 were selected and analyzed to further understand the behavioral, psychological, or physiological pathways that might be linked in the childhood SES experience to adult health outcomes. The effects of socioeconomic status on children are physiological as well as psychological. Elements of the early life experience associated with poverty become biologically embedded and contribute to poor adult health.

Margaret Henning

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Camille Redmond

Date

2015-04-11

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12088/7577

Language

en_US

Subject

Medical Sciences

Other Medicine and Health Sciences

Type

Presentation

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Item sets

AEC 2015 Professional

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Professional