TY  - THES
AB  - This cumulative doctoral thesis deals with the link between social origin, education and health in adolescence. The dissertation consists of five original articles that were published between 2011 and 2013 in national and international public health journals with peer review. Based on the well-known close relationship between social origin and educational prospects, the impli-cations for the healthy development of adolescents were analysed. This issue is not only rele-vant for public health and health policy, but also for research on education and inequality as well as political debate on fair opportunities. The focus is on the admission to secondary edu-cation which has been identified by educational researchers as a crucial step for subsequent educational career and resultant employment and income opportunities. The dissertation is based on the assumption that the transition from primary to secondary education might also be important for the health prospects of adolescents. In order to prove this hypothesis, health status and health behaviour of adolescents with different educational trajectories were exam-ined considering their social origin. Statistical analyses were based on data of the first German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS). The KiGGS baseline study was conducted by the Robert Koch Institute from May 2003 to May 2006 in order to collect comprehensive data about the health situation of children and adoles-cents living in Germany. The results show that adolescents’ own educational status is highly relevant for their healthy development – independent of their social origin. This applies par-ticularly for key aspects of health behaviour. Furthermore, the thesis illustrates the health im-pact of intergenerational social mobility: upward mobility seems to be accompanied with im-provements in health and better health behaviours whereas downward mobility seems to be occasionally associated with detrimental health effects. The findings indicate that intergenera-tional educational transmission and the low level of social mobility play an important role for the production and reproduction of health inequalities over generations. The present synopsis summarises the results of the five original articles and discusses them critically in the light of the current state of health inequality research.
DA  - 2014
KW  - soziale Ungleichheit
KW  - Jugendliche
KW  - Bildung
KW  - Gesundheit
KW  - Gesundheitsverhalten
KW  - KiGGS
KW  - soziale Mobilität
KW  - Bildungsaufsteiger
LA  - ger
PY  - 2014
TI  - Soziale Herkunft, Bildung und Gesundheit: die Bedeutung intergenerationaler Bildungsmobilität für die soziale Ungleichheit von Gesundheitschancen im Jugendalter
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:361-26778550
Y2  - 2024-11-22T04:29:14
ER  -