The Hospital Burden Associated With Intergenerational Contact With the Welfare System in Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Intergenerational welfare contact is a policy issue because of the personal and social costs of entrenched disadvantage; yet, few studies have quantified the burden associated with intergenerational welfare contact for health.

Objective

To examine the proportion of individuals who experienced intergenerational welfare contact and other welfare contact types and to estimate their cause-specific hospital burden.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used a whole-of-population linked administrative dataset of individuals followed from birth to age 20 years using deidentified data from the Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data platform (Australian Government Centrelink [welfare payments], birth registration, perinatal birth records, and inpa

SUBMITTER: Procter AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9356314 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature