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Pathways and mechanisms in adolescence contribute to adult health inequalities.

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AIMS:This paper presents a model that encompasses pathways and mechanisms working over adolescence that contribute to adult health inequalities. We review evidence on the four mechanisms: socially differential exposure, tracking, socially differential tracking, and socially differential vulnerability. METHODS:We conducted literature searches in English-language peer-reviewed journals using PubMed (from 1966 to May 2009) and PsycINFO, and combined these with hand-searches of reference lists, journals, and authors of particular relevance. RESULTS:Most health indicators are socially patterned in adolescence and track into adulthood, with higher risks of adverse outcomes among individuals from lower socioeconomic positions. Adolescent health behaviours track into adulthood. Smoking, physical activity, and especially fruit and vegetable intake are socially patterned, while evidence for social patterning of alcohol use is less consistent. Relational dimensions like lone parenthood and bullying are socially patterned and track over time, and there are indications of a socially differential vulnerability to the effects of these types of relational strain. Very little research has investigated the social patterning of the above indicators over time or studied social vulnerability of these indicators from adolescence to adulthood. However, all four mechanisms seem to be active in establishing social differences in adult educational attainment. CONCLUSIONS:We find the Adolescent Pathway Model useful for providing an overview of what elements and mechanisms in adolescence may be of special importance for adult health inequalities. There is a lack of knowledge of how social patterns of health, health behaviours, and social relations in adolescence transfer into adulthood and to what extent they reflect themselves in adult health.

journal_name

Scand J Public Health

journal_title

Scandinavian journal of public health

authors

Due P,Krølner R,Rasmussen M,Andersen A,Trab Damsgaard M,Graham H,Holstein BE

doi

10.1177/1403494810395989

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-03-01 00:00:00

pages

62-78

issue

6 Suppl

eissn

1403-4948

issn

1651-1905

pii

39/6_suppl/62

journal_volume

pub_type

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Pathways and mechanisms in adolescence contribute to adult health inequalities.