Developing and applying quantitative methods for obtaining new insights into children's health inequalities from longitudinal cohort studies

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1037449

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Children who live in more deprived family circumstances are more likely to experience poorer health including asthma, obesity, and difficulties in language, learning and behaviour. This research uses large scale population surveys of Australian children to investigate how difficulties such as experiencing poverty may affect childrenÍs health. This research also investigates how families and communities experience barriers to receiving health services and how this affects childrenÍs health.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $307,946.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biostatistics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

child behaviour | child development | child health | family health | health care utilisation | health inequalities | longitudinal cohort study | modelling | quantitative | social epidemiology

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