Serious illness in childhood and its association with later-life achievement

作者：Martha E. Wadsworth · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.4324/9781003284673-4 · 被引用次数：37 · 研究领域：Health disparities and outcomes、Employment and Welfare Studies、Obesity and Health Practices

Social class differences in childhood illness are less well documented but, in so far as they are, they seem to present a much less sharply differentiated relationship between illness and social class than the work on adults might lead us to expect. Use of preventive care services in childhood is certainly class-biased and there is evidence of class differences in diet and dietary habits, which shows that lower social class children have relatively ill-balanced diets that might be the beginnings of poor dietary habits for life. Some aspects of childhood that the cohort experienced have since changed quite considerably. In some senses, cohort members may represent last of one lifestyle but, being born in the immediate post-war years, they also represent in some ways the first of a series of changes. Furthermore, comparisons of apparent effects of different kinds of social change may be made by investigating the effects of serious illness in childhood in the existing British birth-cohort studies.