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dc.contributor.authorElstad, Jon Ivar
dc.contributor.authorPedersen, Axel West
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-11T10:25:53Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-29T13:59:14Z
dc.date.available2017-12-11T10:25:53Z
dc.date.available2018-01-29T13:59:14Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationElstad JI, Pedersen AWP. The Impact of Relative Poverty on Norwegian Adolescents' Subjective Health: A Causal Analysis with Propensity Score Matching. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2012;9(12):4715-4731en
dc.identifier.issn1660-4601
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/5612
dc.description.abstractStudies have revealed that relative poverty is associated with ill health, but the interpretations of this correlation vary. This article asks whether relative poverty among Norwegian adolescents is causally related to poor subjective health, i.e., self-reported somatic and mental symptoms. Data consist of interview responses from a sample of adolescents (N = 510) and their parents, combined with register data on the family’s economic situation. Relatively poor adolescents had significantly worse subjective health than non-poor adolescents. Relatively poor adolescents also experienced many other social disadvantages, such as parental unemployment and parental ill health. Comparisons between the relatively poor and the non-poor adolescents, using propensity score matching, indicated a negative impact of relative poverty on the subjective health among those adolescents who lived in families with relatively few economic resources. The results suggest that there is a causal component in the association between relative poverty and the symptom burden of disadvantaged adolescents. Relative poverty is only one of many determinants of adolescents’ subjective health, but its role should be acknowledged when policies for promoting adolescent health are designed.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNorges forskningsråd 199836en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMDPI AGen
dc.rights© 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzer land. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons .org/licenses/by/3.0/).en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
dc.subjectPovertyen
dc.subjectRelative deprivationen
dc.subjectAdolescenceen
dc.subjectYouthen
dc.subjectSubjective healthen
dc.subjectSymptomsen
dc.subjectCausal inferenceen
dc.titleThe Impact of Relative Poverty on Norwegian Adolescents' Subjective Health: A Causal Analysis with Propensity Score Matchingen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2017-12-11T10:25:53Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph9124715
dc.source.journalInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 199836


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