Relative child Poverty, income inequality, wealth, and health

JAMA

Volumn 301, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 425-426

  Emerson, Eric ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NOTE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAX; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FEMALE; INCOME; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; POLICY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POVERTY; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 59249108095     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.8     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. Graham H. Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities. Maidenhead, England: Open University Press; 2007.
2. Whiteford P, Adema A. What Works Best in Reducing Child Poverty: A Benefit or Work Strategy? Paris, France: OECD; 2007. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 51.
3. United Nations Development Programme. Human Development Report 2007: Fighting Climate Change. Human Solidarity in a Divided World. New York, NY: United Nations Development Programme; 2007.
4. World Health Organization. Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health: Final Report of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2008.
5. Pickett KE, Wilkinson RG. Child wellbeing and income inequality in rich societies: ecological cross sectional study. BMJ. 2007;335(7629):1080- 1086.
6. Kuh D, Power C, Blane D, Bartley M. Socioeconomic pathways between childhood and adult health. In: Kuh D, Ben-Shlomo Y, eds. A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology. 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press; 2004.
7. Marmot M. Social determinants of health inequalities. Lancet. 2005;365 (9464):1099-1104.
8. Wilkinson RG. The Impact of Inequality. New York, NY: The New Press; 2005.
9. Galobardes B, Lynch JW, Davey Smith G. Childhood socioeconomic circumstances and cause-specific mortality in adulthood: systematic review and interpretation. Epidemiol Rev. 2004;26:7-21.
10. Galobardes B, Lynch JW, Davey Smith G. Is the association between childhood socioeconomic circumstances and cause-specific mortality established? update of a systematic review. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2008;62(5):387-390.
11. Irwin LG, Siddiqi A, Hertzman C. Early Child Development: A Powerful Equalizer. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2007.
12. UNICEF. Child Poverty in Rich Countries 2005. Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innnocenti Research Centre; 2005.
13. UNICEF. State of the World's Children 2003. New York, NY: UNICEF; 2002.
14. UNICEF. Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries. Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre; 2007.