On the move

A high level of residential mobility is typical of families with young children, research based on the UK Millennium Cohort Study finds and mobile families tend to be disadvantaged in socio-economic and health terms. Although for most families this means a move into a less deprived area than their original circumstances, for the minority of families that move into more deprived areas health outcomes are significantly worse and this impacts on health inequalities between areas with different levels of deprivation. A similar study mines data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study to assess health impacts from childhood mobility in late adolescence and adulthood.