"Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors in children and adolescents: evidence from an Australian cohort".

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the association between socioeconomic inequalities and health behaviors is imperative for elucidating and effectively addressing health inequities among children and adolescents. Despite the wealth of literature on social gradients in health behaviors, longitudinal analyses of socioeconomic inequalities in the health behaviors of children and adolescents are relatively limited, particularly in the Australian literature. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the association between socioeconomic inequalities and health behaviors among Australian children and adolescents.

Methods

This study utilized the secondary data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (Waves 2-8), which included participants aged 2 to 15 years. Relative index ineq

SUBMITTER: Gautam N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11762062 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature