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Childhood socio-economic status, school failure and drug abuse: a Swedish national cohort study

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School failure and childhood socio-economic status predict illicit drug abuse independently in youth and young adults in Sweden in a stepwise manner.
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Aim To investigate whether socio-economic status (SES) in childhood and school failure at 15 years of age predict illicit drug abuse in youth and young adulthood. Design setting and participantsReg ...

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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health

TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
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Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analytic Review of Research

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis reviewed the literature on socioeconomic status and academic achievement in journal articles published between 1990 and 2000 and showed a medium to strong SES-achievement relation.
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Childhood abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction and the risk of illicit drug use: The adverse childhood experiences study

TL;DR: The persistent graded relationship between the ACE score and initiation of drug use for 4 successive birth cohorts dating back to 1900 suggests that the effects of adverse childhood experiences transcend secular changes such as increased availability of drugs, social attitudes toward drugs, and recent massive expenditures and public information campaigns to prevent drug use.
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Socioeconomic status and the developing brain

TL;DR: These studies indicate that SES is an important predictor of neurocognitive performance, particularly of language and executive function, and that S ES differences are found in neural processing even when performance levels are equal.
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Effect of School Population Socioeconomic Status on Individual Academic Achievement

TL;DR: The relationship between the socioeconomic status (SES) of peers and individual academic achievement was examined in this paper, while a variety of sociodemographic factors were being controlled, including a student's own SES.
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