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Belsky, Jay, Bell, Brian, Bradley, Robert H., Stallard, Nigel and Stewart-Brown, Sarah L. (2006) Socioeconomic risk, parenting during the preschool years and child health age 6 years. European Journal of Public Health, Vol.17 (No.5). pp. 508-513. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl261 ISSN 1101-1262.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckl261
Abstract
Parent–child relationships and parenting processes are emerging as potential life course
determinants of health. Parenting is socially patterned and could be one of the factors responsible for
the negative effects of social inequalities on health, both in childhood and adulthood. This study tests
the hypothesis that some of the effect of socioeconomic risk on health in mid childhood is transmitted
via early parenting. Methods: Prospective cohort study in 10 USA communities involving 1041 mother/
child pairs, selected at birth at random with conditional sampling. Exposures: income, maternal
education, maternal age, lone parenthood, ethnic status and objective assessments of mother child
interaction in the first 4 years of life covering warmth, negativity and positive control. Outcomes:
mother’s report of child’s health in general at 6 years. Modelling: multiple regression analyses with
statistical testing of mediational processes. Results: All five indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) were
correlated with all three measures of parenting, such that low SES was associated with poor parenting.
Among the measures of parenting maternal warmth was independently predictive of future health, and
among the socioeconomic variables maternal education, partner presence and ‘other ethnic group’
proved predictive. Measures of parenting significantly mediated the impact of measures of SES on child
health. Conclusions: Parenting mediates some, but not all of the detectable effects of socioeconomic
risk on health in childhood. As part of a package of measures that address other determinants,
interventions to support parenting are likely to make a useful contribution to reducing childhood
inequalities in health.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Children -- Health and hygiene, Parent and child, Equality | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Public Health | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1101-1262 | ||||
Official Date: | 14 December 2006 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.17 | ||||
Number: | No.5 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 508-513 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/eurpub/ckl261 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Funder: | United States. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | ||||
Grant number: | U10-HD25420 |
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