The role of health and social factors in education outcome: A record-linked electronic birth cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Health status in childhood is correlated with educational outcomes. Emergency hospital admissions during childhood are common but it is not known how these unplanned breaks from schooling impact on education outcomes. We hypothesised that children who had emergency hospital admissions had an increased risk of lower educational attainment, in addition to the increased risks associated with other health, social and school factors.

Methods

This record-linked electronic birth cohort, included children born in Wales between 1 January 1998 and 31 August 2001. We fitted multilevel logistic regression models grouped by schools, to determine whether emergency hospital inpatient admission before age 7 years was associated with the educational outcome of not at

SUBMITTER: Evans A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688802 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature