Does an elite education benefit health? Findings from the 1970 British Cohort Study
Author(s) -
David Bann,
Mark Hamer,
Sam Parsons,
George B. Ploubidis,
Alice Sullivan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyw045
Subject(s) - attendance , medicine , body mass index , socioeconomic status , demography , gerontology , odds ratio , cohort , cohort study , odds , environmental health , population , logistic regression , pathology , sociology , economics , economic growth
Attending private school or a higher-status university is thought to benefit future earnings and occupational opportunities. We examined whether these measures were beneficially related to health and selected health-related behaviours in midlife.
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