When in the life course do socioeconomic inequalities in physical health emerge?
Researchers: Lawlor, Davey Smith, Propper, Lynch, McGill University It is likely that socioeconomic inequalities in different aspects of physical health emerge at different stages in the life course, either because differences in health behaviours emerge at different stages of the life course or because different life course models are related with different outcomes (Ben-Shlomo & Kuh, 2002). We will use the repeated measures of SEP and health related outcomes to examine socioeconomic differentials in obesity, metabolic, vascular and respiratory outcomes at all ages from birth and infancy through to age 16. We will compare the magnitude of these differentials at different ages and thus document socioeconomic inequalities for outcomes as children age, including whether there are different patterns of socioeconomic differentials through childhood for different health outcomes.
