Social Determinants and Consequences of Early Life Health

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE035 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC28 Social Stratification (host committee)
RC15 Sociology of Health

Language: English

Health in early life is an important underlying driving factor of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status, and by extension likely plays a role in how social inequalities are reproduced or disrupted over time. On the one hand, children’s health early in life is shaped by social conditions during the prenatal period and by parents’ social conditions. On the other hand, early life health is also a determinant of developmental and socioeconomic outcomes across the life course. This session seeks papers that address the role of early life health in the stratification system. Of particular interest are (1) early life health and intergenerational transmission; (2) the experience and management of early childhood health; (3) social determinants of childhood health; and (4) consequences of early health conditions over the life course.
Session Organizers:
Han LIU, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA and Jonathan GABE, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Chair:
Han LIU, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Oral Presentations
Communities of Women and the Inter-Generational Exchange of Menstrual Knowledge: Reflections from Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Sinazo NOMSENGE, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
The Impact of Pre-Migration Institutional Arrangements on Health Disparities: A Case Study of Latin American Immigrants in the U.S.
Ariel AZAR, Purdue University, USA; Angela ZORRO MEDINA, University of Toronto, Canada
Gaining Power, Getting Weight: Educational Assortative Mating and Infants’ Birth Weights in China
Shichao DU, China
Health and Well-Being of Children in Kinship Care: Patterns and Mechanisms
Zi WAN, USA
Gender Differences in Psychological Distress during the Transition to Early Adolescence
Lucrezia CRESCENZI-LANNA, Open University of Catalonia, Spain; Belen GUTIERREZ, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain; Riccardo VALENTE, University of Barcelona, Spain
Distributed Papers
From Exclusive Breastfeeding to Mixed Feeding; The Experiences of Mothers in Cape Coast, Ghana
Solomon SIKA-BRIGHT, University of Cape Coast, Ghana; Daniel DARKO-ASUMADU, University of Cape Coast, Ghana; Georgina YAA ODURO, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
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