School and health inequalities in childhood and adolescence: quantitative perspectives

儿童和青少年时期的学校和健康不平等：定量视角

• 批准号: 416092659
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Matthias Richter
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Social Determinants of Health
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/416092659?language=en
• 关键词: health; inequalities; childhood; adolescence; quantitative

While health inequalities in young people are receiving renewed scientific interest, little is known about potential factors and mechanisms that impact the relationship between family socioeconomic position and health in school-aged children and adolescents. The school represents a key institutional context for young people influencing their psychological, social and health-related development. Prior research on cognitive outcomes and self-concept in young people has highlighted the importance of compositional and contextual characteristics of the school within a variety of national and international studies. However, not much is known about whether these characteristics are associated with health and well-being. It is also completely unclear how these meso-level characteristics can improve our understanding of health inequalities. The overall aim of the subproject is to investigate the role of individual as well as compositional and contextual school characteristics in explaining socioeconomic inequalities in health in primary and secondary school children. Following the conceptual framework of the research unit, the subproject will address the following research questions:1. Do individual-level determinants contribute to the explanation of health inequalities among students in primary and secondary education, and which determinants show the strongest relative contribution to the explanation of socioeconomic inequalities in health? 2. Which compositional and contextual characteristics of classes or schools are associated with health and well-being in students in primary and secondary education?3. Is the association between socioeconomic position and health of students mediated or moderated by compositional and contextual characteristics of classes or schools above and beyond individual-level determinants? To answer these research questions, a scoping review and several empirical analyses will be conducted together with SP 4. The review aims to identify characteristics at the class and school level that have been associated with students’ health and health inequalities. The empirical analyses are based on data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) and use three of its cohorts covering students from first to 13th grade, clustered in classes and schools. NEPS provides a wide range of data at the individual (students/parents) as well as meso level, with the latter either measured as contextual characteristics (teachers/school principals) or compositional characteristics (aggregated individual-level data). The research questions will be analysed using multilevel models. The analysis of these relationships is particularly important since compositional and contextual characteristics of the school context suggest different implications for school policies in counteracting socioeconomic inequalities in young people’s health and well-being.

虽然年轻人的健康不平等正在重新受到科学关注，但对影响家庭社会经济地位与学龄儿童和青少年健康之间关系的潜在因素和机制知之甚少。学校是青年人影响其心理、社会和健康发展的一个关键机构环境。先前对年轻人认知结果和自我概念的研究强调了学校在各种国家和国际研究中的组成和背景特征的重要性。然而，人们对这些特征是否与健康和幸福有关知之甚少。同样完全不清楚的是，这些中观层面的特征如何能够改善我们对健康不平等的理解。该分项目的总体目标是调查个人以及学校组成和背景特征在解释中小学儿童健康方面的社会经济不平等方面的作用。根据研究单位的概念框架，该子项目将解决以下研究问题：1。个人层面的决定因素是否有助于解释小学和中学学生之间的健康不平等，哪些决定因素对解释健康方面的社会经济不平等表现出最强的相对贡献？2.班级或学校的哪些组成和背景特征与中小学学生的健康和福祉有关？3.社会经济地位与学生健康之间的关联是否受班级或学校的组成和背景特征的介导或调节？为了回答这些研究问题，将与SP 4一起进行范围审查和几项实证分析。审查的目的是确定班级和学校一级与学生健康和健康不平等有关的特点。实证分析的基础上，从德国国家教育小组研究（NEPS）的数据，并使用三个队列，涵盖学生从一年级到13年级，聚集在班级和学校。国家环境政策计划提供了个人（学生/家长）和中间一级的广泛数据，中间一级的数据或者作为背景特征（教师/校长），或者作为组成特征（个人一级的汇总数据）来衡量。研究问题将使用多层次模型进行分析。这些关系的分析是特别重要的，因为组成和背景的特点，学校的环境表明不同的影响，在抵消社会经济不平等的青年人的健康和福祉的学校政策。