Childhood socioeconomic status and adult health

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The social determinants of health: coming of age. (2011, background): “Many studies have shown that early experiences affect children’s cognitive, behavioral, and physical development (7, 25, 53, 55), which predicts health; developmental differences have been associated with socioeconomically linked differences in children’s home environments, including differences in ”
Social Inequality and Health Across the Life Course (2013, methodology): “Life course epidemiologists have been particularly attentive to questions of timing, testing whether the prenatal period is a “critical period” that shapes adult disease and mortality (Barker, Bull, Osmond, & Simmonds, 1990; Barker et al., 1991; Cohen et al., 2010; Eriksson, Forsen, Tuomilehto, Osmo”
Psychological Stress in Childhood and Susceptibility to the Chronic Diseases of Aging: Moving Towards a Model of Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms (2011, background): “And perhaps even more critically: Might childhood SES predict outcomes because it is acting as a proxy for cumulative disadvantage, which many argue is likely to be the most influential sociodemographic determinant of disease and disability (Cohen et al., 2010)?”
Psychological Perspectives on Pathways Linking Socioeconomic Status and Physical Health (2011, background): “Perhaps most importantly, the adequacy of the empirical tests of these associations is sometimes limited (for a full discussion of methodological issues, see Cohen et al. 2010).”