Does household income predict health and educational outcomes in childhood better than neighbourhood deprivation?

2024-07-26 health policy Title + abstract only

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BackgroundPublic health research and prevention policies often use the small area Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) at neighbourhood level to proxy individual socio-economic status because it is readily available. We investigated what household income adds to IMD in early childhood for predicting adverse health in adolescence. MethodsUsing data from the Millennium Cohort Study, we analysed IMD and self-reported equivalised household income (ages 0-5) to predict outcomes at age 17: poor academ...