Socioeconomic disparities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Sweden: An intersectional ecological niches analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (IEN-AIHDA)

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 18; no. 11; p. e0294741
• Main Authors: Hornborg, Christoffer, Axrud, Rebecca, Vicente, Raquel Pérez, Merlo, Juan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 2023; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Behavior; Child; diagnosis; Disease; Ecological niches; Epidemiology; Female; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa och socialmedicin; Health Sciences; Heterogeneity; Humans; Hyperactivity; Hälsovetenskap; Immigrants; Income; Intersectional Framework; Intersectionality; Male; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicalization; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Middle Aged; Preschool; Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine; Risk; Risk analysis; Social conditions; Social problems; Society; Socioeconomic Disparities in Health; Socioeconomic factors; Sociology; Sweden; Young Adult; Sweden

We aimed (i) to gain a better understanding of the demographic and socioeconomical distribution of ADHD risk in Sweden; and (ii) to contribute to the critical discussion on medicalization, i.e., the tendency to define and treat behavioural and social problems as medical entities. For this purpose, w...