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Analysis: World Health Organisation report - Call to give children an equal start
Nursery World,
25 September 2008
Social and economic policies keep children in living conditions that decrease their life expectancy. Annette Rawstrone looks at a new study.
Children living just a few miles apart in UK cities can have vastly different life expectancies, according to a report published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) earlier this month. Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health found that a child born in a Glasgow suburb can expect to have a life 28 years shorter than another living only 13 kilometres away. Commenting on these findings, chief executive of Child...
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