Chapter book: Moving Towards a Better Understanding of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Preventive Health Care Use: A Life Course Perspective

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

AbstractResumen:

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

ContentsCapítulos:

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

 

KeywordsPalabras clave:

Socioeconomic Inequalites; Health Care Systems; Life Course

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