The lifelong socioeconomic disadvantage of single-mother background - The Helsinki Birth Cohort study 1934-1944

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mikkonen, H Maiju ^a,b   Salonen, Minna K ^a,c   Häkkinen, Antti ^d   Olkkola, Maarit ^a   Pesonen, Anu Katriina ^d   Räikkönen, Katri ^d   Osmond, Clive ^e   Eriksson, Johan G ^a,c,d,f,g   Kajantie, Eero ^a,h,i  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FOLKHÄLSAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g VAASA CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

ⁱ OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Lifecourse; Marital status; Out of wedlock birth; Single mother; Single parent; Socioeconomic position; Unmarried mother

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLEGITIMACY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFESPAN; MARRIAGE; MARRIED PERSON; MENTAL CAPACITY; ODDS RATIO; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; SINGLE PARENT; STATISTICS; AGED; CHILD WELFARE; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MOTHER; POVERTY; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COHORT STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84982190106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3485-z     Document Type: Review

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