Housing insecurity linked to poorer teen health outcomes

There is an association for housing insecurity starting in infancy and poorer adolescent outcomes, according to a study published online July 1 in Pediatrics. Kristyn A. Pierce, M.P.H., from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, and colleagues created a composite measure of housing insecurity using five indicators for participants at ages 1, 3, 5, 9, and 15 years based on data from the Future of Families and Child Well-being Study. Group-based trajectory modeling was used to identify distinct patterns of housing insecurity, sociodemographic predictors of these Read More

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