Dr Mac Armstrong said the future for children living in Scotland's most deprived areas looked "much bleaker" than that of those living in well-off areas, after a report highlighted huge differences in the levels of teenage pregnancy, neonatal death and asthma.
Teenage girls from deprived areas were more than three times as likely to fall pregnant than those from areas with the least deprivation, the 2004 indicators showed. However, the national rate of pregnancy for 13-to 15-year-old girls has fallen from 8.9 per 1,000 in 1995 to 7.4 per 1,000 in 2003.
The report also revealed that 25.3 per 10,000 children in deprived areas were admitted to hospital because of asthma. The rate for the least deprived areas was 19 per 10,000.
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