Poverty and Child Health, Second Edition

by Spencer; Nick

• ISBN13: 9781857754773
• ISBN10: 1857754778
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-09-15
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This new updated and expanded edition challenges many widely held views on the links between poverty and child health. It brings together historical and current evidence, and considers the practical implications for health and social policy, outlining innovative approaches to future development.
Poverty and Child Health is vital reading for paediatricians and child health workers, doctors and health service managers, social service professionals, social scientists and everyone with an interest in shaping health and social policy.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Definition and measurement	p. 1
Defining and measuring poverty	p. 3
The extent of child poverty	p. 28
Measuring child health	p. 49
Evidence of child health inequalities	p. 67
Historical evidence linking poverty and child health in developed countries	p. 69
Poverty and child health in less developed countries	p. 100
Poverty and child health in developed countries	p. 133
The causal debate	p. 183
'Race', ethnicity, poverty and child health	p. 185
The causal debate	p. 209
Mechanisms, causal models and pathways	p. 241
Social and health policy implications	p. 275
Social policy implications	p. 277
Innovative health service approaches and future research directions	p. 309
Conclusions	p. 333
Appendix	p. 337
Index	p. 339
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