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- Title: Children in Harm's Way: A Global Issue As Important As Climate Change (Report)
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 285 KB
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Introduction There is extensive evidence demonstrating that the health and wellbeing of many of the world's children is at risk. In a comprehensive report just released by the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health titled "Closing the Gap in a Generation", the increasingly steep social gradient in children's health outcomes is highlighted by the fact that worldwide, 10 million children die each year before their fifth birthday (Commission on the Social Determinants of Health [CSDH] 2008). While the vast majority of these deaths occur among children born in low or middle-income countries, infant mortality is also higher among disadvantaged households and communities in high income countries such as the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia (CSDH 2008, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth 2008). The social gradient affecting children is not restricted to health outcomes alone. It is estimated that more than 200 million children are not achieving their full developmental potential (CSDH 2008), in terms of emotional, attentional and social regulation, literacy and numeracy, and subsequent learning. The gravity of the issue and the importance of remediation are underscored by a great deal of evidence that suggests early child development lays the foundation for lifelong health and wellbeing (Maggi et al. 2005). Because children who become healthy adults can be expected to make a positive contribution to society, both socially and economically, social gradients in children's development affect the health and wellbeing of entire populations.
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