Cost effectiveness analysis of inhaled anticholinergics for acute childhood and adolescent asthma

Abstract

We found that low socioeconomic status in adulthood was related to adverse changes in control beliefs during the six year follow up (results not shown), suggesting that adult socioeconomic conditions further contribute to beliefs of low control. More information is needed on the specific socioeconomic correlates that induce beliefs of low control as these may be easier to modify than the beliefs themselves. Low job control may be one of these conditions. 5 Other studies with larger numbers are needed to examine the behavioural or psychophysiological pathways through which perceived control affects mortality. Our findings emphasise that only by examining psychological mechanisms more thoroughly can we determine the complex pathways through which social structure affects individual disease and mortality.