Job quality and inequality: Parents' jobs and children's emotional and behavioural difficulties

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2052-2060

  Strazdins, Lyndall ^a   Shipley, Megan ^a   Clements, Mark ^a   Obrien, Léan V ^a   Broom, Dorothy H ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Child mental health; Health inequalities; Social determinants; Work and family; Work conditions

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH RISK; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; SINGLE PARENT; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77952671415     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.041     Document Type: Article

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