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

Table 3 Influence of concurrent 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 previous 12 months^1†	Being perceived in less than very good during the past 12 months^2†
	ERR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Change from first round (baseline)
5 months	-	1.00
17 months	1.00	1.55 (1.18,2.03)^***
29 months	0.95 (0.89,1.02)	1.32 (1.01,1.73)^*
41 months	0.63 (0.58,0.68) ^***	1.35 (1.03,1.77)^*
Change due to concurrent poverty
Sufficient income	1.00	1.00
Insufficient income	1.39 (1.09,1.76)^***	1.51 (1.14,1.99)^**
Number of children	1 944	1 945
Number of measurements	5 712	7 632

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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