Housing Australian Children: A Snapshot of Health Inequities in the First 2000 Days.

ABSTRACT: Housing is a critical social determinant of children's health. While individual pathways between housing and health are well evidenced, there has been less attention on the co-occurrence of housing disadvantages. We aim to identify typologies of children's housing disadvantage and describe the health inequities they generate. A cross-sectional latent class analysis (LCA) was conducted on 4355 Australian children aged 4 to 5 years who participated in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Nine binary indicators-dwelling tenure, external condition, affordability, stability, crowding, cleanliness, fuel poverty, and noise exposure-were used to generate latent housing typologies. Generalized linear models with robust standard errors described disparities in quality of life, injury, disa

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11652628 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature