Social determinants of child health and wellbeing

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Social determinants of child health and wellbeing

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By Clyde Hertzman, Jianghong Li, Eugen Mattes, Anne M McMurray, Fiona Stanley

Published: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-921348-15-0
Pages: ii+134

Overview

Editors:

Jianghong Li
Centre for International Health and School of Public Health
Curtin University of Technology

Fiona Stanley and Eugen Mattes
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia

Anne McMurray
Peel Health Campus Chair in Nursing
Murdoch University

and

Clyde Hertzman
Director Human Early Learning Partnership
University of British Columbia

The global community has long recognized the importance of research and policy development in relation to the social contexts of child health, especially amongst poorer nations.

Despite increasing wealth, evidence of poor health outcomes in children and youth from Western countries, indicates a need for a shift in focus that includes both developed and developing countries.

The need to focus on infancy and childhood is paramount as developmental health research suggests that the early years play a vital role in creating and maintaining socioeconomic health inequalities through to adulthood.

Policy makers in all countries are becoming increasingly interested in creating more equitable societies, particularly given the growing evidence of the impact of social inequalities on health.

This special issue seeks to inform on the social inequalities connected with child health and well-being, and the social, political, and cultural factors which shape (or determine) child health and well-being. It creates a dialogue on the social determinants of child health that will engage researchers, students, health practitioners and policy-makers.