Sarah Missinne
In: A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions. Life Course Research and Social Policies Volume 4, 2015, pp 111-131
Springer Open, 2015
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20484-0
Abstract / Resumen:
The aim of this book chapter is to outline how the life course perspective can move forward the debate on socioeconomic inequalities in preventive health care use. Recent theoretical developments in medical sociology, including health lifestyle theory and cultural health capital theory, have implicitly encapsulated a longer-term view of an individual’s life, in order to develop a better understanding of the social causes of good health and conversely illness. I will elaborate more explicitly on how the five central principles of the life course perspective apply to preventive health care use, using the empirical example of mammography screening. Central and unanswered questions pertain to (i) the life stages that are important in the development of cultural health capital or a healthy lifestyle (life-span development); (ii) the temporality of socioeconomic inequalities in preventive health care (timing); (iii) the impact of different socialization contexts for healthy lifestyles or cultural health capital (structure-agency debate); (iv) the change in preventive health care use across policy implementations (time and place); and (v) the role of significant others for health care use (linked lives).
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From the Book – A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
Editors : Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Stéphane Cullati, Amanda Sacker, David Blane
Contents / Capítulos:
Introduction
Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Stéphane Cullati, Amanda Sacker, and David Blane
2 Trajectories and Transitions in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Laura D. Howe, Riz Firestone, Kate Tilling, and Debbie A. Lawlor
3 Oral Health Over the Life Course
Anja Heilmann, Georgios Tsakos, and Richard G. Watt
4 A Life Course Perspective on Body Size and Cardio-metabolic Health
William Johnson, Diana Kuh, and Rebecca Hardy
5 Health Trajectories in People with Cystic Fibrosis in the UK: Exploring the Effect of Social Deprivation
David Taylor-Robinson, Peter Diggle, Rosalind Smyth, and Margaret Whitehead
6 Moving Towards a Better Understanding of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Preventive Health Care Use: A Life Course Perspective
Sarah Missinne
7 Inter-Cohort Variation in the Consequences of U.S. Military Service for Men’s Mid- to Late-Life Body Mass Index Trajectories
Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London, and Christine L. Himes
8 Linear Mixed-Effects and Latent Curve Models for Longitudinal Life Course Analyses
Paolo Ghisletta, Olivier Renaud, Nadège Jacot, and Delphine Courvoisier
9 The Analysis of Individual Health Trajectories Across the Life Course: Latent Class Growth Models Versus Mixed Models
Trynke Hoekstra and Jos W.R. Twisk
10 Age, Period and Cohort Processes in Longitudinal and Life Course Analysis: A Multilevel Perspective
Andrew Bell and Kelvyn Jones
Keywords / Palabras clave:
Socioeconomic Inequalites; Health Care Systems; Life Course
