Longitudinal patterns of poverty and health in early childhood: exploring the influence of concurrent, previous, and cumulative poverty on child health outcomes

Table 4 Influence of previous-round poverty on child health in the first 41 months of life, adjusted event rate ratios and odds ratios (ERR & OR) from multilevel Poisson and logistic regressions, (QLSCD, 1998–2001)

	Number of mother-reported asthma-like attacks during the past 12 months^1†	Being perceived in less than very good health during the previous 12 months^2†
	ERR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Change from first round
17 months	1.00	1.00
29 months	0.96 (0.90,1.03)	0.84 (0.64,1.09)
41 months	0.63 (0.58,0.68)^***	0.85 (0.66,1.10)
Change due to poverty estimate in the previous round
Sufficient income	1.00	1.00
Insufficient income	1.28 (1.08,1.51)^**	1.28 (0.89,1.84)
Change due to poverty estimate in the previous round after controlling for current poverty status
Sufficient income	1.00	1.00
Insufficient income	1.25 (1.06,1.48)^**	1.21 (0.82,1.79)
Number of children with complete data	1 944	1 944
Number of measurements	5 683	5 687

¹Adjusted for child’s sex and birth rank, type of family, and mother’s age and education.
²Adjusted for child’s sex and birth rank, use of daycare centre, and mother’s education and immigrant status.
^* p < 0.05 ^** p < 0.01 ^*** p < 0.001.
^†Weighted parameter estimates.

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