Economic opportunity, health behaviours, and health outcomes in the USA: a population-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inequality of opportunity, defined as differences in the prospects for upward social mobility, might have important consequences for health. Diminished opportunity can lower the motivation to invest in future health by reducing economic returns to health investments and undermining hope. We estimated the association between county-level economic opportunity and individual-level health in young adults in the general US population.

Methods

In this population-based cross-sectional study, we used individual-level data from the 2009-12 United States Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys. Our primary outcomes were current self-reported overall health and the number of days of poor physical and mental health in the last month. Economic opportunity was measured by t

SUBMITTER: Venkataramani AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5947845 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature