Lay summary
The impact of poverty is felt profoundly on Pacific families. However, little on how relevant measures of poverty are to health outcomes in Pacific children. Most analyses of poverty in Pacific assume current metrics of poverty apply uniformly to all Pacific ethnic groups. This proposal will investigate how poverty affect the health Pacific children/families and if they are consistent across all Pacific specific groups. The study will take the form of four separate analyses in each Pacific community: describe morbidity and mortality for resident and non-residents; investigate associations between poverty and health in a birth cohort of children; predict health outcomes under different assumptions of poverty; finally, undertake sense-making talanoa. Benefits from the study are specifically to Pacific communities but also to New Zealand overall.