ORCID Profile
0000-0002-2688-6933
Current Organisation
Loughborough University
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Epidemiology | Community Child Health | Urban and Regional Planning | Public Health and Health Services | Urban Analysis and Development |
Social Structure and Health | Child Health | Residential Building Management and Services | Residential Construction Design | Health Inequalities
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-05-2020
DOI: 10.1007/S10888-019-09435-5
Abstract: Counting poverty measures have gained prominence in the analysis of multidimensional poverty in recent decades. Poverty orderings based on these measures typically depend on methodological choices regarding in idual poverty functions, poverty cut-offs, and dimensional weights whose impact on poverty rankings is often not well understood. In this paper we propose new dominance conditions that allow the analyst to evaluate the robustness of poverty comparisons to those choices. These conditions provide an approach to evaluating the sensitivity of poverty orderings superior to the common approach of considering a restricted and arbitrary set of indices, cut-offs, and weights. The new criteria apply to a broad class of counting poverty measures widely used in empirical analysis of poverty in developed and developing countries including the multidimensional headcount and the adjusted headcount ratios. We illustrate these methods with an application to time-trends in poverty in Australia and cross-regional poverty in Peru. Our results highlight the potentially large sensitivity of poverty orderings based on counting measures and the importance of evaluating the robustness of results when performing poverty comparisons across time and regions.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-12-2014
DOI: 10.1111/ROIW.12160
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-11-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-11-2019
DOI: 10.1002/SMI.2842
Abstract: Children from highly disadvantaged families tend to experience worse health, educational, and job outcomes than less disadvantaged peers. However, the mechanisms underlying these relationships remain to be explicated. In particular, few studies have investigated the relationships between the psychosocial influences that children are exposed to early in life and longer term cortisol output. This study aims to contribute to the literature by exploring how disadvantaged young children's experiences of family adversity, and parenting and family functioning, are related to their long-term cortisol levels. A s le of 60 children (26 males, mean = 4.25 years, SD = 1.68) and their mothers (mean = 34.18 years, SD = 7.11) from a low-income population took part in a single assessment. Mothers completed questionnaires on the family environment, parenting practices, and child behaviour. Children provided a hair s le for cortisol assay and anthropometric measures. A parsimonious multivariate regression model (including potential predictors identified by a selection algorithm) was used to investigate the correlates of hair cortisol concentration (HCC) in children. Higher levels of social exclusion, being male, and younger age were each associated with higher HCC. Maternal nurturing and emotion coaching were associated with lower HCC. Findings suggest that chronic stress may underlie relationships between adversity and its long-term effects and that HCC offers a promising method for examining chronic stress in children and evaluating interventions by which it can be ameliorated.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-07-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-05-2017
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 17-03-2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 17-03-2023
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 30-09-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-05-2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-06-2018
DOI: 10.1093/IJE/DYY086
Abstract: Disadvantage rarely manifests as a single event, but rather is the enduring context in which a child's development unfolds. We aimed to characterize patterns of stability and change in multiple aspects of disadvantage over the childhood period, in order to inform more precise and nuanced policy development. Participants were from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children birth cohort (n = 5107). Four lenses of disadvantage (sociodemographic, geographic environment, health conditions and risk factors), and a composite of these representing average exposure across all lenses, were assessed longitudinally from 0 to 9 years of age. Trajectory models identified groups of children with similar patterns of disadvantage over time for each of these lenses and for composite disadvantage. Concurrent validity of these trajectory groups was examined through associations with academic performance at 10-11 years. We found four distinct trajectories of children's exposure to composite disadvantage, which showed high levels of stability over time. In regard to the in idual lenses of disadvantage, three exhibited notable change over time (the sociodemographic lens was the exception). Over a third of children (36.3%) were exposed to the 'most disadvantaged' trajectory in at least one lens. Trajectories of disadvantage were associated with academic performance, providing evidence of concurrent validity. Children's overall level of composite disadvantage was stable over time, whereas geographic environments, health conditions and risk factors changed over time for some children. Measuring disadvantage as uni-dimensional, at a single time point, is likely to understate the true extent and persistence of disadvantage.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-12-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-01-2021
DOI: 10.1002/PSP.2399
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-11-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-12-2010
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 09-2019
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2010
End Date: 2013
Funder: Xunta de Galicia
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2007
End Date: 2009
Funder: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2014
End Date: 2015
Funder: Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2014
End Date: 2015
Funder: Consumers Utilities Advocacy Centre
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2020
End Date: 2023
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2015
End Date: 2016
Funder: Melbourne Research, University of Melbourne
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2015
End Date: 2016
Funder: Group of Eight
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 12-2018
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $511,109.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 04-2021
End Date: 04-2024
Amount: $475,014.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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