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IJE Advance Access originally published online on March 3, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(2):344-345; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi044
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: How does socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood damage health in adulthood? Testing psychosocial pathways

Richie Poulton1,* and Avshalom Caspi2,3

1 Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand
2 Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK
3 Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

* Corresponding author. Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. E-mail: richie.poulton@dmhdru.otago.ac.nz

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The multi-national comparative study by Power and colleagues1 provides strong evidence for a significant correlation between low socioeconomic status (SES) and health risk in adulthood. As expected, adult SES was related to obesity and smoking behaviours. However, low childhood SES was also significantly related to adult health risk, even after adjusting for contemporaneous adult SES. The evidence supports a long-term association between childhood SES and adult health that is not simply due to the life course continuity of low SES. To obtain such broadly consistent findings in seven samples from six countries is impressive, more so, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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