Poverty and the health of children and adolescents

Reading, Richard

doi:10.1136/adc.76.5.463

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“…This study found that African American CSHCN had lower HRQOL compared to Caucasian CSHCN. Furthermore, poverty has been related to poor child health and well-being (Reading, 1997;Spencer, 2007). CSHCN from low income families are more likely to be uninsured and may, in turn, experience access issues, such as greater unmet needs and less likelihood of having a usual source of care or a personal doctor or nurse (Mayer, Skinner, & Slifkin, 2004;Newacheck, McManus, Fox, Hung, & Halfon, 2000;van Dyck, Kogan, McPherson, Weissman, & Newacheck, 2004).…”

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Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life Among Children With Special Health Care Needs in the United States

Chen

Cisler

2011

Children's Health Care

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Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life Among Children With Special Health Care Needs in the United States

Chen

Cisler

2011

Children's Health Care

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“…Again, we by no means wish to deny that obesity during childhood also happens in well-off families but rather opt to reinforce the idea that more children in poverty are affected due to their being poor, which is sufficient for our claim that child poverty violates the claims of these children to be healthy. In an older review, Richard Reading presented good reasons why poverty is, in fact, the cause for ill health and health disparities in a society, reasons that still hold: research is consistent; the relation between poverty and child health can be found in every country; there is historical evidence that shows this relation is not new; there is an incremental relation; and the relation between health and poverty has been shown for many different forms of material and social deprivation (Reading 1997). …”

Section: The Ill-being and Ill-becoming Of Child Poverty: Physical Anmentioning

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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty

Schweiger¹,

Graf²

2015

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“…Parental smoking, drinking and substance abuse are all more common in the poor and socially disadvantaged. Poverty is associated with less uptake of immunisation, low uptake of health surveillance and antenatal and postnatal screening, higher incidence of childhood accidents, greater frequency of infectious disease and teenage pregnancies 8 . Poverty is also associated with poor maternal diet before and during pregnancy, low breastfeeding rates, inappropriate weaning foods, poor dental health and inadequate diet during the pre-school period 9 .…”

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“…The evidence for the adverse effects of poverty on child health is overwhelming, and many evidence-based interventions designed to reduce inequalities in health are aimed at mothers and children. Provision of social, financial and psychological support during pregnancy and childbirth, smoking cessation programmes for pregnant women, folic acid supplementation before and around the time of conception, neonatal biochemical screening, personal support for breast-feeding, free school milk and meals, fluoridation of water supplies, interventions to reduce accidents in children of deprived communities, provision of sex education and services to reduce teenage pregnancies, improving oral hygiene, reducing sugar and saturated fat intake, and promoting healthy eating have a positive effect on the health of children 8 .…”

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The child is father of the man: Paediatricians should be more interested in adult disease

Weaver

2001

Clinical Medicine

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-We expect that most pregnancies will bear normal babies, which will grow up into healthy young adults free of the risk of serious disease. We also believe that many common diseases and causes of death in adulthood may be preventable through changes in living conditions, diet and lifestyle.The 20th century saw a massive decline in childhood mortality and morbidity as well as improvements in child health. The relations between environmental influences and genetic endowment in the genesis of disease are ever clearer, and at their 'extremes' susceptible to interventions. The burden of infectious disease has been reduced to 5% of what it was a century ago, and many chromosomal and monogenic diseases can be avoided or their effects ameliorated before or soon after birth.Nevertheless, there is strong evidence that poor environmental conditions are the principal determinants of ill health at all stages of life, and it follows that the optimal time to intervene to correct them is in early life. Moreover, we recognise the principal risk factors for chronic adult disease, and also have the tools to measure genetic susceptibility to them. There is, therefore, hope that as their natural history becomes better defined, they will be increasingly preventable or treatable.The challenge to paediatricians now is to ensure that children are not only born healthy and remain healthy, but also grow up to be healthy adults. When it is increasingly clear that the origins of many adult diseases are in childhood or before, paediatricians should strive to work closely with their colleagues in primary care, public health, clinical genetics, education, government, housing, environmental and social services, toward the common goal of promoting optimum health throughout the fullness and completeness of life.One of the forces that led to the foundation of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) was the belief that children are different from adults, and that the care of the sick child is based upon principles other than 'scaled down' adult medicine alone. Yet children are destined to become adults, and their health in adulthood has its roots in childhood. While paediatricians are organising themselves into a distinct professional group to promote and defend the interests of children, the links between child and adult health are becoming more apparent, and ways in which the early origins of adult disease can be investigated and modified are within closer reach. Advances in child healthPaediatricians (literally 'child healers') see themselves as doctors who care for sick children. However, they owe their position largely to advances in public health. Until the 20th century, childhood mortality was dominated by acute, usually infectious, disease. At least one in four children died before the age of four, and those that survived often died prematurely from chronic bone, heart, lung or kidney disease. From around 1750 rising standards of living led to better housing and diet; then from 1850 advances in public health great...

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Poverty and the health of children and adolescents

Cited by 43 publications

References 68 publications

Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life Among Children With Special Health Care Needs in the United States

Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life Among Children With Special Health Care Needs in the United States

A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty

The child is father of the man: Paediatricians should be more interested in adult disease

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