Parental education related to their children's health in late childhood and early adolescence for Pacific families within New Zealand.

ABSTRACT: Pacific people continue to carry a disproportionately heavy social and health burden relative to their non-Pacific peers in New Zealand, and those with less formal education are experiencing social and health declines. Improving education and educational needs is seen as being central to decreasing these health inequities. While expansive, the empirical evidence-base supporting this stance is relatively weak and increasingly conflicting. Using a large birth cohort of 1,368 eligible Pacific children, together with their mothers and fathers, this study longitudinally investigates the relationship between paternal education levels and sentinel measures of their children's physical health, mental health and health risk taking behaviours during late childhood and early adolescence. In adjusted

SUBMITTER: Schluter PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8964731 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature