Educational Differences in Smoking among Adolescents in Germany: What is the Role of Parental and Adolescent Education Levels and Intergenerational Educational Mobility?

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3015-3032

  Kuntz, Benjamin ^a   Lampert, Thomas ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Education; Germany; Health inequalities; KiGGs; Life course; Smoking; Social mobility; Socioeconomic status; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; EDUCATION; HEALTH RISK; MOBILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PARENT; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; TOBACCO;

GERMANY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84887311514     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph10073015     Document Type: Article

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