The relationship between income poverty and child hospitalisations in New Zealand: Evidence from longitudinal household panel data and Census data.
Nichola ShackletonEileen LiSheree GibbAmanda KvalsvigMichael BakerAndrew SporleRebecca BentleyBarry J MilnePublished in: PloS one (2021)
Income poverty is at best weakly associated with hospitalisation in childhood. Measures of deprivation may have a stronger association. Income measures alone may not be sufficient to capture the diversity of household economic circumstances when assessing the poverty-health relationship.