Family social environment in childhood and self-rated health in young adulthood.

Background: Family social support, as a form of social capital, contributes to social health disparities at different age of life. In a life-course epidemiological perspective, the aims of our study were to examine the association between self-reported family social environment during childhood and self-reported health in young adulthood and to assess the role of family functioning during childhood as a potential mediating factor in explaining the association between family breakup in childhood and self-reported health in young adulthood.

Methods: We analyzed data from the first wave of the Health, Inequalities and Social Ruptures Survey (SIRS), a longitudinal health and socio-epidemiological survey of a random sample of 3000 households initiated in the Paris metropolitan area in 2005.

The role of daily mobility in mental health inequalities: the interactive influence of activity space and neighbourhood of residence on depression.

The literature reports an association between neighbourhood deprivation and individual depression after adjustment for individual factors. The present paper investigates whether vulnerability to neighbourhood features is influenced by individual "activity space" (i.e.

Food insecurity: could school food supplementation help break cycles of intergenerational transmission of social inequalities?

Objective: The aim of our study was to investigate the moderating effect of school food programs in schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods on the association between household food insecurity and scholastic difficulties among adolescents.

Methods: We analyzed data from the Social and Health Survey of Children and Adolescents in Quebec, Canada, which was conducted in 1999 and included 2346 adolescent students 13 and 16 years of age (and 1983 of their parents). Sample-weighted regression analyses were performed to determine the association between household food insecurity and school difficulties and to explore the moderating role of food supplementation programs with respect to this association.

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From a public healthcare point of view, the Internet rapidly emerged as a potentially useful tool for providing information to patients and for promoting healthcare. While the individual factors involved in the use of online healthcare information are now well known, the effect of the area of residence has been largely ignored. The object of this study is to assess the impact of contextual characteristics associated with the neighbourhood and area of residence on the use of internet for accessing healthcare information.

Exploring mediating factors in the association between parental psychological distress and psychosocial maladjustment in adolescence.

Parental psychopathology is associated with increased psychosocial maladjustment in adolescents. We examined, from a psychosocial perspective, the association between parental psychological distress and psychosocial maladjustment in adolescents and assessed the mediating role of psychosocial covariates. This is a cross-sectional survey and the setting include representative sample of Quebec adolescents in 1999.

Family breakup and adolescents' psychosocial maladjustment: public health implications of family disruptions.

Objectives: Recent changes in family structure are associated with an increase in psychosocial maladjustment in adolescents. We examined, from a public health intervention perspective, the association between family breakup and psychosocial maladjustment in adolescents and assessed the mediating role of family-functioning variables.

Methods: We analyzed data from the Social and Health Survey of Children and Adolescents in Quebec, Montreal, Canada, which was conducted in 1999.