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Authors Dougal S Hargreaves, Aghileh Djarfari Marbini, Russell M Viner, UCL Institute of Child Health and Imperial College NHS Trust
Published by Archives of Disease in Childhood, May 2013
SUMMARY
This paper, Inequality Trends in Health and Future Health Risk Among English Children and Young People 1999-2009, aimed to investigate changes over a 10-year period to the health outcomes of children and young people from different economic backgrounds. The researchers tracked changes in the health of noughtto 24-year-olds using four types of data from the Health Survey for England: occupation of the head of the household; general health reported by parents or child; longstanding illnesses, as a reflection of current health; and obesity and smoking as an indicator of future health. Children and young people had previously identified these factors among others as important, in a National Children's Bureau study, Listening to Children's Views on Health Provision.
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