Residential Socio-Demographic Scoring and Child Growth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While individual socioeconomic attributes have been widely studied in relation to child growth, the associations with broader, area-level socio-demographic characteristics of residential areas have not been thoroughly assessed.

Objectives

To examine the associations between area-level socio-demographic features of small residential areas and child growth trajectories.

Methods

We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study, including all children born in Israel from 2004 to 2018, who underwent postnatal follow-up in the Mother and Child Health Clinics (MCHC) of the Ministry of Health. The MCHC network covers a significant proportion of the Israeli paediatric population, providing vaccination and developmental assessments to children up to 6 years

SUBMITTER: Cohen O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12574495 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature