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Urban South African adolescents' perceptions of their neighborhood socio-economic environments: the Birth to Twenty plus cohort study
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posted on 2015-03-03, 14:14 authored by Rebecca Pradeilles, Emily RoushamEmily Rousham, Shane A. Norris, Paula GriffithsPaula GriffithsThe Apartheid era led to major differences in the living conditions between population groups in South Africa. Subsequently, reforms have been implemented to reduce poverty and inequalities. This study aims to assess neighborhood and school socio-economic (SE) environments reported by adolescents to determine whether geographic and population group differences in the SE environment exist. Neighborhood SE status was assessed using a novel questionnaire adapted to the urban South African context. Black African and Mixed Ancestry participants lived in more deprived SE environments and reported studying in less favorable school environments compared to Whites. Among Black Africans, those living in Soweto versus metropolitan Johannesburg reported more deprived economic and school environments.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Research Unit
- Socio-economic status and child/adolescent health in Johannesburg-Soweto Study
Published in
Children, Youth and EnviornmentsVolume
24Issue
3Pages
173 - 200Citation
PRADEILLES, R. ... et al, 2014. Urban South African adolescents' perceptions of their neighborhood socio-economic environments: the Birth to Twenty plus cohort study. Children, Youth and Environments, 24 (3), pp. 173 - 200.Publisher
© Children, Youth and EnvironmentsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
This article was originally published in the journal Children, Youth and Environments [© Children, Youth and Environments].ISSN
1546-2250Publisher version
Language
- en