[영문]Objectives. Studies that examine children’s poverty and health at one point in timedo not account for some children experiencing poverty briefly and others living inpoverty for much of their lives. The objective of this study was to determine howduration of poverty and child race are related to child health.Methods. To assess these relationships, we analyzed data from the Panel Study ofIncome Dynamics and its Child Development Supplement. Ordinary least squaresregression was used to estimate bivariate and multivariate models predictingcaregiver-rated child health. The regression models assessed the statistical effect ofthe proportion of childhood in poverty and child race on child health, controllingfor child sex, age, parental education, whether the household includes two parents,and family poverty in the last year.Results. Increasing proportion of childhood in poverty is associated with worsehealth status. In addition, African American children are more likely than whitechildren to have lower-rated health status. The analysis does not support thehypothesis that poverty more strongly affects the health of African Americanchildren.Conclusions. Increasing exposure to family poverty negatively affects child health.Future research would benefit from more studies that utilize longitudinal measuresof childhood poverty. We suggest that public policies to reduce childhood povertyexposure would improve child health.