How community resources mitigate the association between household poverty and the incidence of adverse childhood experiences

Alexandra Blair (), Louise Marryat and John Frank
Additional contact information
Alexandra Blair: Université de Montréal
Louise Marryat: University of Edinburgh
John Frank: University of Edinburgh

International Journal of Public Health, 2019, vol. 64, issue 7, No 10, 1059-1068

Abstract: Abstract Objectives To assess what proportion of the association between household low income and incidence of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) would be eliminated if all households had access to housing, transportation and childcare services, breastfeeding counselling, and parks. Methods Using Growing Up in Scotland birth cohort data (N = 2816), an inverse probability-weighted regression-based mediation technique was applied to assess associations between low-income status (

Keywords: Childhood circumstances; Child health; Adverse childhood experiences; Poverty; Inequalities; Health equity; Social epidemiology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00038-019-01258-5 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ijphth:v:64:y:2019:i:7:d:10.1007_s00038-019-01258-5

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/00038

DOI: 10.1007/s00038-019-01258-5

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Thomas Kohlmann, Nino Künzli and Andrea Madarasova Geckova

More articles in International Journal of Public Health from Springer, Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().