Context or composition? Exploring the adult health and well-being of British children born in different regions

Abstract

The aim of the research is to explore how multiple social and spatial disadvantage at birth and in early childhood may combine to affect health and well-being in adulthood at age 30 using the British Cohort Study (BCS70). Traditionally researchers examining the geography of poverty or disadvantage have bridged only two disciplines: sociology and geography, or have focused on single outcomes such as mortality or morbidity rates (Dorling, 1997; Tunstall et al , 2007). However this research takes …