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What works in reducing inequalities in child health? /
The UK has a deservedly strong reputation for work on understanding social inequalities in health. But there is some way to go in ensuring that research and other types of knowledge are used to reduce inequalities in child health. This revised and updated edition of an important report looks at macr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Chicago, IL :
Policy Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What Works in Reducing Inequalities in Child Health?
- Contents
- Tables and figures
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Inequalities and health
- What are the causes of the causes of ill health and inequalities in health?
- What do health inequalities mean for children?
- Why do inequalities matter?
- Poverty, inequality and the NHS
- Death and disease in childhood
- Policy reports and the importance of prevention
- What works?
- Research, policy and practice
- And when there is no evidence?
- 2. What kinds of studies help us understand what works?
- The challenge of evaluation at a local level
- Does it work? How can we design and deliver effective services?
- Systematic reviews
- The contribution of different research designs
- An assets-based approach drawing on lay and scientific evidence
- What doesn't work?
- Making it work
- 3. What works in early life? Infancy and the pre-school period
- Death in and before the first year
- What works in making a difference?
- Cost-effectiveness and early intervention
- An intervention not to be tried at home
- 4. What works in childhood and adolescence?
- What are the problems?
- What are some of the solutions?
- Education
- Disabled children and their families
- Adolescence
- Teenage pregnancy
- Young smokers
- Mental health and substance abuse
- Tackling obesity in children and young people
- What may not help
- 5. What works in keeping children safe?
- Background
- What doesn't work?
- What works in making a difference?
- Drawing on children and parents' safe-keeping strategies
- or what are people doing right?
- Child safety and local authorities which consult parents and children
- Child protection (non-accidental injury)
- 6. What works for vulnerable groups?
- General health and immunisation.
- Mental health and emotional well-being
- Education
- Settled safe accommodation
- What helps?
- 7. Tackling the causes of the causes
- Inequalities in child health
- Context
- Policies for directly addressing inequalities in child health
- Policy implications of health inequalities research: dilemmas of advocacy
- And finally ...
- References
- Web and other resources
- Child health data and Healthy Child Programme
- Policy across the UK
- Policy reports
- Where to go for good evidence
- Poverty and inequality
- Resources for young people
- What does it all mean?
- Index.