Child Poverty and Health

We believe that child poverty is a critical issue, but as the Child Poverty Action Group is so effective in this area the SHA does not actually carry out much activity in relation to it.

Unequal from the start: How can we give babies a fair chance of health? Submission to the Labour Party Policy Forum February 2008

See also our page on poverty and health inequality

• The Acheson Report 1998
• Black Report 1980
• BMJ collection on Socioeconomic Determinants of Health
• Bradford District Infant Mortality Commission
• Campaign 2000 - End Child Poverty in Canada
• Campaign Against Child Poverty - Toronto
• Campaign to End Child Poverty UK
• Can current policy end child poverty in Britain by 2020? JRF 2006
• Child Health Informatics Centre
• Child Health and Paediatrics Specialist Library
• Child Health Statistics
• Child Poverty Action Group (UK)
• Child Poverty Action Group Inc. of Aotearoa - New Zealand
• Child Rights Information Network
• Child wellbeing and income inequality in rich societies: ecological cross sectional study BMJ 2007
• Children's Commissioner for Wales
• Children's Defense Fund USA
• Children’s Plan 2007
• Combat Poverty Agency - Ireland
• Countering child poverty BMJ 2001
• Department of Child Health Leicester
• Eldis Children and Young People Resource Guide
• End Child Poverty
• Ending Child Poverty and Transforming Life Chances - John Hutton 2006
• Ending child poverty: everybody's business
• European Anti Poverty Network
• Every Child Matters
• Extended Schools
• Families USA
• Financial cost of social exclusion: follow up study of antisocial children into adulthood 2001
• Gene links breastfeeding to higher IQ
• Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the Institute of Child Health
• Health and Income Equity University of Washington
• Health Inequalities - Dept of Health
• Health inequalities politics and policy under New Labour UK 2000
• Health Variations Programme
• Healthy Living Blueprint for schools 2004
• HM Treasury - Child Poverty
• Income Inequality and Mortality BMJ 2000
• Indications of Public Health in the English Regions: Child Health
• Inequalities in Access to Maternity Services Health Committee 2003
• Injuries in children aged 0-14 years and inequalities 2005
• International Poverty and Health Network
• Local child poverty statistics
• London Child Poverty Commission
• Lump sum needed 2006
• Measuring Child Poverty (pdf)
• Narrowing the Gap - Fabians 2006
• National Centre for Children in Poverty (USA)
• National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit
• Neighbourhood Renewal National Strategy
• New Tax Credits consultation document 2001
• Poverty, Health, and the Environment World Resources Institute
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• SHA policy on child poverty
• Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health
• Social Exclusion and Health Politics Included 2000
• Surestart
• Tax Credits
• Teenage Mums
• Together we will make poverty history - Blunkett October 2005
• Turning the Tables: Transforming School Food - Recommendations for the Development and Implementation of Revised School Lunch Standards October 2005 SHA Evidence
• UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
• UNICEF
• What will it take to end child poverty? Joseph Rowntree
• Young People's Gateway
• Youth Policies in the UK - Chronology

Last updated 22/06/08