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Health 'timebomb' for poor children
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
28 August 2008
Children born into poverty are ten times more at risk of cot death than children from wealthier families, and much more prone to chronic illness, according to new research.
The study, by the Campaign to End Child Poverty, said the health of poor children is 'a timebomb waiting to go off'. It said that babies born into disadvantaged families are twice as likely to have cerebral palsy, and at birth they weigh 200g less on average than those with wealthier parents. The data was compiled using figures from separate studies including the Millennium Cohort Study and 'Against All Odds', a...
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