Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Women’s Health Risk

Taking female labor force as the study object, two structuring equitation models about Socioeconomic Status (SES), life style, and health risk are developed and the empirical tests are given. The objective is to explore the degree of influence of SES on women's health risk. The research provides the basis for lowering female laborers'health risk and putting forward health promotion policies. The result shows: (1) there is a positive relationship between socioeconomic status and women health risk. With the rise of socioeconomic status, health risk decreases. The influence is more significant in the lowest SES population. (2) SES does not have impact on women's Health risk though life style mechanism. (3)Education and occupation are the most important influencing factors on women health risk. The influence of income on women's health risk is not significant.