Health inequalitiesOne in eight children in the United Kingdom are estimated to have a mental health condition, and many do not receive support or treatment. The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted mental health and disrupted the delivery of care. Prevalence of poor mental health is not ...
The health crisis, which we are experiencing for the past 2 years, has shed light upon the extent of socioeconomic inequalities with regard to mental health in children and adolescents and their increase over time. As advocated by the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health 15 years ago...
are not particularly well off. They are completely under the radar—they need support but often don't ask for help. Inequalities tend to increase in magnitude at times like this. Let's put in safeguards now, so that we don't keep seeing the same, or worse, inequalities for the next 10...
"With more than 7 million children experiencing deprivation of liberty globally each year, the health of these children is important in reducing health inequalities," he said. "Despite this, remarkably little is known about either the health status of children deprived of liberty or thehealth servi...
The age-standardized prevalence and DALY rates of the four nutritional deficiencies decreased as the SDI and healthcare access and quality index increased. Conclusions The global burden of nutritional deficiency has decreased since 1990, but cross-country health inequalities still exist. More efficient ...
Aim To examine whether there are ethnic inequalities in child oral health behaviours and the role of parental socioeconomic status (SES) in explaining them. Methods Data from 2,186 five- and eight-year-olds of white, Asian, Black and other ethnicity, who
The age-standardized prevalence and DALY rates of the four nutritional deficiencies decreased as the SDI and healthcare access and quality index increased.Conclusions The global burden of nutritional deficiency has decreased since 1990, but cross-country health inequalities still exist. More efficient ...
Measuring and monitoring these inequalities could be useful in designing health interventions that put the most-disadvantaged subgroups at the forefront. Furthermore, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has identified the need to monitor inequalities and this forms a core part of its policy [13, 14]. To ...
In addition, it is important to take into account different indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) while assessing socioeconomic inequalities in OW/OB among children, as different SEP indicators might influence the pathways leading to health inequalities in different manners. For example, income co...
Purpose - – The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to measure the health inequalities among malnourished children; second, to decompose the health inequalities to identify key socioeconomic predictors for child malnutrition; and third, to assess the change in the proportional contribution of...