Beyond NICU

Health and socioeconomic characteristics underlying educational attainment of children born preterm (James Boardman, UK)Background In the UK, 27% of children live in poverty after housing costs, which is about 4.3 million children. That figure has risen since 2010. The EU’s at-risk-of-poverty-or-social-exclusion figures are similar on average, ranging from about 12% in Slovenia to about 35% in Bulgaria. In earlier work, his group used parent reports at age 2 to define four developmental clusters: typical, communication, neuromotor, and multiple problems. Neighbourhood deprivation at birth was among the top six predictors for every cluster. For the communication cluster it…