Question

Identify three socioeconomic factors that influence the health of the Gaborra family.

Answer 1

influence of socioeconomic status on health is assumed to begin in the prenatal environment and continue through life. Parents’ socioeconomic status affects childhood conditions, such as exposure to toxins and infectious agents. These conditions affect health immediately and possibly for years afterwards, the effects being only partly moderated by later changes in status (Blackwell et al., 2000; Hayward et al., 2000; Kuh and Davey-Smith, 1997; Preston et al., 1998). Childhood socioeconomic differences have been recently shown to account for a substantial part of the later mortality gap between blacks and whites (Warner and Hayward, 2002).