Institute of Health/
Institute for Advanced Study
Public Lecture
Poverty During the Early Years:
Does it Matter? Some Data from
the Quebec Birth Cohort
Professor Louise Séguin
(Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,
University of Montreal)
Mechanisms underlying the links between child poverty and health are not
fully understood in industrialised countries. Experiencing deprivation during
the early years matters for health in adulthood but does it matter for
children’s health in rich countries and how is that so? Using results from our
recent analyses of data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child
Development, this lecture will examine trajectories of children exposure to
poverty from birth up to 8 years old. Then, it will look at how timing and
duration of poverty in early life might influence the health of young
children. The potential mediating role of biological vulnerability at birth
and/or of early exposure to various psychosocial adversities in the
relationship between poverty and child health will also be discussed.
The case of asthma will be used to illustrate.
Refreshments Provided.
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28 April 2010
@ 4.00pm-6.00pm, Room R0.12, Ramphal Building,
University of Warwick
To book a place, please contact Jas Bains at
j.k.bains@warwick.ac.uk