Indirect health-related selection or social causation Interpreting the educational differences in adolescent health behaviours

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 134-150

  Elstad, Jon Ivar ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH NOVA   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adolescent health behaviours; Educational achievement; Health inequalities; Indirect health related selection; Social causation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950532957     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2009.26     Document Type: Article

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