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ArticleAnnual review of sociology2010

Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors.

Fred C Pampel, Patrick M Krueger, Justin T Denney

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Article in Annual review of sociology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 770 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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770 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Fred C PampelDepartment of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0484; Fred.Pampel@colorado.edu.
Patrick M Krueger
Justin T Denney

Funding

University of Colorado Population CenterP2CHD066613 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI JANE A MENKEN · 2015 to 2026
$3.7M
The University of Colorado Population CenterR24HD066613 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI PAMPEL, FRED C · 2010 to 2014
$1.9M
NICHD Population CenterR21HD051146 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER · PI ROGERS, RICHARD G · 2005 to 2009
$884k
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD066613NICHD NIH HHS R21 HD051146NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD066613
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inverse relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and unhealthy behaviors such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition have been well demonstrated empirically but encompass diverse underlying causal mechanisms. These mechanisms have special theoretical importance because disparities in health behaviors, unlike disparities in many other components of health, involve something more than the ability to use income to purchase good health. Based on a review of broad literatures in sociology, economics, and public health, we classify explanations of higher smoking, lower exercise, poorer diet, and excess weight among low-SES persons into nine broad groups that specify related but conceptually distinct mechanisms. The lack of clear support for any one explanation suggests that the literature on SES disparities in health and health behaviors can do more to design studies that better test for the importance of the varied mechanisms.

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PMCPMC3169799

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