Socio-emotional skills, vital for navigating life’s challenges, significantly influence educational success and well-being. Thus, socio-economic disparities in these skills may contribute to broader inequalities in achievement. Despite their importance, research in certain contexts, like France, remains limited. Self-efficacy, a cornerstone of soci...
Published in Scientific reports
An inverse social gradient in early childhood overweight has been consistently described in high-income countries; however, less is known about the role of migration status. We studied the social patterning of overweight in preschool children according to the mother's socio-economic and migration background. For 9250 children of the French ELFE bir...
Published in European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie
This paper provides new evidence on inequalities in resources for children age 3-4 by parental education using harmonized data from six advanced industrialized countries-United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Japan-that represent different social welfare regime types. We analyze inequalities in two types of resources for y...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction To investigate the association between social deprivation and COVID-19 among hospitalized patients in an underprivileged department of the greater Paris area. Methods Individuals hospitalized for COVID-19 between March 1st and October 31, 2020, were included, matched on age and sex, and compared with patients hospitalized for any other...
More than 4 in 10 (41%) French Polynesians live in complex households, the majority sharing a home with several generations of the same family, and a minority coresiding with peers. These households include a large share of young adults and people facing economic insecurity due to a lower-than-average level of education and a higher risk of unemplo...
Cette étude a été établi pour France Stratégie, dans le cadre du rapport : Le politiques publiques en faveur de la mobilité sociale des jeunes. France Stratégie, octobre 2023. Disponible sur : https://www.strategie.gouv.fr/publications/politiques-publiques-faveur-de-mobilite-sociale-jeunes
Background This study aimed to analyze the parental socio-demographic characteristics of children and adolescents aged 9 to 18 years old, as well as the living and housing conditions associated with the psychological distress in these two sub-populations during and after France’s first national COVID-19-related lockdown in spring 2020. Methods We u...
Published in European child & adolescent psychiatry
Emerging research suggests that the prevalence of child and adolescent mental health problems has increased considerably during the COVID-19 crisis. However, there have been few longitudinal studies on children's mental health issues according to their social determinants in this context, especially in Europe. Our aim was to investigate the associa...
Objective Major socioeconomic differences in contraceptive use are observed in high-income countries. Cost is often cited as a main factor to explain these differences but other barriers may also exist. Our aim was to compare prescribed contraceptive use among low-income and non-low-income women in a national context of full health insurance covera...
Rationale Neighbourhood socio-economic deprivation is strongly related to health-risk behaviours, which are predictors of overall health and mortality. During the Covid-19 pandemic, individuals have been forced to spend more time within their residential areas, which might have had an effect on health-risk behaviours. Objective We assess the conseq...
