Explaining Educational Related Inequalities in Health : Mediation and Moderator Models  

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Thrane, Christer

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 2 (Jan. 2006), page 467-478.
Topik: health; norway; ehalth inequality; education; lifestyles; mediation; moderation

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper studies how education and certain lifestyle factors affect people's self reported health. In adition to the assessment of the effects of education and lifestyle, the study contrast two models of explaining educational related health inequalitites, the mediation model and the moderator model. The mediation model posits that well educated people's better health, as compared to the poorly educated is caused by their more healthy lifestyles. The moderator model suggests, by contrast, that the effects of the lifestyle variables on health are dependent upon educational level. Several analyses are carried out on two large data sets comprising of middle aged men and women in two norwegian vountries, rogaland and nordland. Two main findings are presented : 1. both education and lifestyle factors have the expected effects on health 2. the results do not permit a clear cut conclusion as to which of the two models of educational related health inequalities shoudl be preferred, whereas the results support the mediation model in the data from rigaland, the moderator model is partially supported in the nordland data.

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