Income Gap is a Matter of Childhood Life and Death
Income Gap is a Matter of Childhood Life and Death - Breaking Medical News + CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today:
"ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 1 -- Although there was an overall drop in childhood death rates from all causes from 1969 through 2000, most of the declines occurred among children from upper income brackets. Action Points
Explain to patients that economic disparities in healthcare, housing quality, nutrition, education and other factors may all contribute to higher death rates among poor children than children from wealthy families.
The relative overall disparity in child mortality across socioeconomic quintiles widened from 25% in 1969-1970 to 34% in 1988-1990 and 43% in 1998-2000,' wrote Gopal K. Singh, Ph.D., M.S., M.Sc., and Michael D. Kogan, Ph.D., of the Health Resources and Services Administration in an early online release from the Sept. issue of the American Journal of Public Health. " /.../
"ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 1 -- Although there was an overall drop in childhood death rates from all causes from 1969 through 2000, most of the declines occurred among children from upper income brackets. Action Points
Explain to patients that economic disparities in healthcare, housing quality, nutrition, education and other factors may all contribute to higher death rates among poor children than children from wealthy families.
The relative overall disparity in child mortality across socioeconomic quintiles widened from 25% in 1969-1970 to 34% in 1988-1990 and 43% in 1998-2000,' wrote Gopal K. Singh, Ph.D., M.S., M.Sc., and Michael D. Kogan, Ph.D., of the Health Resources and Services Administration in an early online release from the Sept. issue of the American Journal of Public Health. " /.../
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