Socioeconomic inequalities in fruit and vegetable intakes
Thornton, Lukar, Olstad, Dana, Lamb, Karen and Ball, Kylie 2016, Socioeconomic inequalities in fruit and vegetable intakes. In Watson, Ronald Ross and Preedy, Victor R. (ed), Fruits, vegetables, and herbs : bioactive foods in health promotion, Academic Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp.3-22, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-802972-5.00001-9.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in fruit and vegetable intakes
Socioeconomic position (SEP) refers to an individual’s social and economicranking within society based on access to resources (such asmaterial and social assets, including income, wealth, and educational credentials)and prestige (ie, an individual’s status in a social hierarchy, linkedfor instance to their occupation, income, or education level) (Krieger et al.,1997). Individual SEP can be measured using a variety of indicators whichcommonly include education, occupation, and income (Galobardes et al.,2006). Composite measures are frequently used when examining neighborhoodlevel measures of SEP and are commonly created by combining censusdata on a range of indicators.
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