The current study examines how poverty and education in both the family and school contexts influence adolescent weight … how income and education operate alone and in conjunction with each other across families and schools. We test it by …-level poverty and educational resources, we find that at the family-level, parent's education, but not poverty status, is associated …

education gradient (but no income gradient) in drug utilization, after controlling for health indicators. Whereas high … males, but not as clearly for females, we find that the education gradient is weaker for more health-related drugs but … stronger for more expensive drugs. We conclude that the main reason for the education gradient in drug utilization is doctors …

Education and income are important socioeconomic indicators that reflect different aspects of social hierarchy. However …, only a few studies have explicitly examined how different the relationship between education and health behaviour is from … that between income and health behaviour. According to the human capital theory of health investment, education would …

Survey (2004–11). We identify the separate associations between a variety of measures of physical inactivity with education … and household income. We find high levels of physical inactivity. Further, both education and household income are …