Educational expectations and adolescent health behaviour: an evolutionary approach

Ross Whitehead (), Dorothy Currie (), Jo Inchley () and Candace Currie ()

International Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 60, issue 5, 599-608

Abstract: Encouraging adolescents to consider an academic future may achieve public health benefits, despite social factors that might otherwise precipitate poor health via an accelerated life history trajectory. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2015

Keywords: Temporal orientation; Academic expectations; Adolescent; Health behaviour; Risk behaviour; Life history theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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