Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Abstract

• Type I Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic illness that affects children nationwide. Chronic diseases like diabetes can affect well-being as well as physical health. The primary focus of this paper is to examine how social determinants of health such as education and income are associated with children’s overall health, and how this association is affected by childhood diabetes. I used the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), representative national-level data, to analyze this association. A series of cross-tabulations and three-way associations were conducted to test for the significant influences of diabetes on socioeconomic status and health. While diabetes suppressed the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, overall a strong association was found between social determinants and health in the sample. These important findings contribute to our understanding of how key social determinants of health such as socioeconomic status can be shaped by childhood chronic conditions such as diabetes.

Creator

• Seligova, Sona

Date Awarded

• 2017-01-01

Academic Affiliation

• Sociology

Advisor

• Masters, Ryan

Committee Member

• Conzelman, Carol
• Brown, Matthew

Granting Institution

• University of Colorado Boulder

Subject

• Fundamental Cause Theory
• socioeconomic status
• overall health
• NSCH
• childhood diabetes

Last Modified

• 2019-12-02

Resource Type

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

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• Arts and Sciences Honors Program

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