Clery, A;
Grant, C;
Harron, K;
Bedford, H;
Woodman, J;
(2022)
Measuring disadvantage in the early years in the UK: A systematic scoping review.
SSM - Population Health
, 19
, Article 101206. 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101206.
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Abstract
Background: The relationship between disadvantage and child health in the early years is well established. For this evidence base to most helpfully inform services, we need to better understand how disadvantage is conceptualised and measured in the literature. We aimed to conceptualise disadvantage measured in child health literature and explore the associations between disadvantage and child health using these measures. Method: We conducted a scoping review using systematic methods to identify key concepts of disadvantage used in empirical child health literature. We searched MEDLINE, Scopus, and grey literature for studies exploring the association between disadvantage and child health outcomes for children aged 0-5 in the United Kingdom. We extracted and analysed data from 86 studies. Results: We developed a framework describing two domains, each with two attributes conceptualising disadvantage: level of disadvantage indicator (individual and area) and content of disadvantage indicator (social and economic). Individual-level measures of disadvantage tended to identify stronger associations between disadvantage and child health compared with area-level measures. Conclusion: The choice of disadvantage indicators, particularly whether individual- or area-level, can affect the inferences made about the relationship between disadvantage and child health. Better access to individual-level disadvantage indicators in administrative data could support development and implementation of interventions aimed at reducing child health inequalities in the early years.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Measuring disadvantage in the early years in the UK: A systematic scoping review |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101206 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101206 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | Child health, Disadvantage, Early years, Scoping review |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156085 |
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