One in three children in the UK lives in relative poverty. There are clear and consistent links between child poverty and paediatric morbidity and mortality. In this review, we discuss drivers for family poverty in the UK, and how this leads to poor child health outcomes. We present a ...
One in three children in the UK lives in relative poverty. There are clear and consistent links between child poverty and paediatric morbidity and mortality. In this review, we discuss drivers for family poverty in the UK, and how this leads to poor child health outcomes. We present a framew...
Among the OECD countries, Costa Rica had the highest share of children living in poverty, reaching 28.5 percent in 2022.
Awaab's death should be a stark warning to the UK Government to increase its investment in children and young people. The fact that children have had the highest poverty rates in the UK over the past 25 years is shameful ...
Families of children with disabilities: income poverty, material deprivation, and unpaid care in the UK Article Open access 21 August 2023 Multistage Processes of Identifying Children at Risk or Out of Family Care: a Case of DOVCU Project Methods in Uganda Article Open access 14 February 201...
This study investigated associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood (at ages 9 months and 3 years) and adiposity trajectories of children/adolescents from age 5 to age 17, and the potential interaction between ACEs and poverty on adiposity trajectories. Methods Data ...
Child food insecurity in the UK: a rapid review 10.3310/phr06130 Google Scholar Bell et al., 2023 Z. Bell, S. Scott, S. Visram, J. Rankin, C. Bambra, N. Heslehurst Children's nutritional health and wellbeing in food insecure households in Europe: a qualitative meta-ethnography ...
2b,c). Early onset of wasting was consistently high across countries with different levels of health spending, poverty and under-5 mortality, with early wasting particularly high (18.3% (95% CI: 13.5, 24.4) at birth) in the five cohorts with birth measures and a national health expenditure ...
year and this has potential to impact the wellbeing of children. Short and long-term consequences include sexual abuse and exploitation, self-harm, excessive use of alcohol and harmful drugs. This paper discusses the association between childhood adversity and child sexual exploitation (CSE) in ...
Covid-19 may have pushed as many as 142m children worldwide below monetary poverty lines April 4 2021 Akinwumi Adesina Race for Covid vaccines in Africa is hiding the key role of nutrition Access to adequate food for all must be a priority in the continent’s fight against the pandemic ...