Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood poverty: implications for UK's 'levelling up' agenda

2022-08-12 public and global health Title + abstract only

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BackgroundEarly childhood poverty is associated with poorer health and educational outcomes in adolescence. However, there is limited evidence about the clustering of these adverse outcomes by income group. MethodsWe analysed five outcomes at age 17 known to limit life chances - psychological distress, self-assessed ill health, smoking, obesity, and poor educational achievement - using data from the longitudinal UK Millennium Cohort Study (N=15,245). We compared how single and multiple outcomes...

Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood poverty: implications for UK's 'levelling up' agenda

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