TY - JOUR
T1 - Child Health
T2 - Reaching the Poor
AU - Wagstaff, Adam
AU - Bustreo, Flavia
AU - Bryce, Jennifer
AU - Claeson, Mariam
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2004/5
Y1 - 2004/5
N2 - In most countries, rates of mortality and malnutrition among children continue to decline, but large inequalities between poor and better-off children exist, both between and within countries. These inequalities, which appear to be widening, call into question the strategies for child mortality reduction relied upon to date. We review (1) what is known about the causes of socioeconomic inequalities in child health and where programs aimed at reducing inequalities may be most effectively focused and (2) what is known about the success of actual programs in narrowing these inequalities. We end with lessons learned: the need for better evidence, but most of all for a new approach to improving the health of all children that is evidence based, broad, and multifaceted.
AB - In most countries, rates of mortality and malnutrition among children continue to decline, but large inequalities between poor and better-off children exist, both between and within countries. These inequalities, which appear to be widening, call into question the strategies for child mortality reduction relied upon to date. We review (1) what is known about the causes of socioeconomic inequalities in child health and where programs aimed at reducing inequalities may be most effectively focused and (2) what is known about the success of actual programs in narrowing these inequalities. We end with lessons learned: the need for better evidence, but most of all for a new approach to improving the health of all children that is evidence based, broad, and multifaceted.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.94.5.726
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.94.5.726
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15117689
AN - SCOPUS:2342437317
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 94
SP - 726
EP - 736
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - 5
ER -