Children's health status: examining the associations among income poverty, material hardship, and parental factors.

BACKGROUND: We examined a model of multiple mediating pathways of income poverty, material hardship, parenting factors, and child health status to understand how material hardship and parental factors mediate the effects of poverty on child health. We hypothesized that: (a) poverty will be directly...

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Main Authors: Godwin S Ashiabi, Keri K O'Neal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1978512?pdf=render