ArticleSSM - population health2022
Measuring disadvantage in the early years in the UK: A systematic scoping review.
Article in SSM - population health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Understanding early inequalities: Multiple dimensions of children's developmental contexts predict age 3 outcomes.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Supporting Parents to Support Children: A U.K. Randomized Controlled Trial Testing a Text Message Intervention to Cultivate the Home Learning Environment.Journal of educational psychology · 2026Article
- Does household income predict health and educational outcomes in childhood better than neighbourhood deprivation?Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Poverty and intellectual development in childhood.International journal of population data science · 2025Article
- Housing tenure and early-life acute lower respiratory tract infection admissions in two national Scottish birth cohorts.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: socioeconomic inequalities in symptoms, impact, diagnosis and medication.Child and adolescent mental health · 2024Article
- A maternal and child health administrative cohort in Scotland: the utility of linked administrative data for understanding early years' outcomes and inequalities.International journal of population data science · 2024Article
- Using administrative data to evaluate national policy impacts on child and maternal health: a research framework from the Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet).Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: The relationship between disadvantage and child health in the early years is well established. For this evidence base to most helpfully inform services, we need to better understand how disadvantage is conceptualised and measured in the literature. We aimed to conceptualise disadvantage measured in child health literature and explore the associations between disadvantage and child health using these measures. Method: We conducted a scoping review using systematic methods to identify key concepts of disadvantage used in empirical child health literature. We searched MEDLINE, Scopus, and grey literature for studies exploring the association between disadvantage and child health outcomes for children aged 0-5 in the United Kingdom. We extracted and analysed data from 86 studies. Results: We developed a framework describing two domains, each with two attributes conceptualising disadvantage: level of disadvantage indicator (individual and area) and content of disadvantage indicator (social and economic). Individual-level measures of disadvantage tended to identify stronger associations between disadvantage and child health compared with area-level measures. Conclusion: The choice of disadvantage indicators, particularly whether individual- or area-level, can affect the inferences made about the relationship between disadvantage and child health. Better access to individual-level disadvantage indicators in administrative data could support development and implementation of interventions aimed at reducing child health inequalities in the early years.
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