Effects of accumulated environmental, social and host exposures on early childhood educational outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persistent disparities in academic performance may result from a confluence of adverse exposures accruing disproportionately to specific subpopulations.

Objective

Our overarching objective was to investigate how multiple exposures experienced over time affect early childhood educational outcomes. We were specifically interested in whether there were: racial/ethnic disparities in prevalence of adverse exposures; racial/ethnic disparities in associations observed between adverse exposures and early childhood educational outcomes; and interactions between exposures, suggesting that one exposure augments susceptibility to adverse effects of another exposure.

Methods

We link geocoded North Carolina birth data for non-Hispanic white (NHW) and non-Hispanic black (

SUBMITTER: Bravo MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8176571 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature