What Works in Reducing Inequalities in Child Health?

ISBN-13: 9781847429964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Helen Roberts

Opis

This revised and updated edition of an important report looks at macro public policy interventions, community interventions, and individual level interventions in a variety of areas to ascertain 'what works' in practice. It includes new case studies, updated research references, and reference to cost effectiveness.

Spis treści

Introduction: Inequalities and health; What are 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?: 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: 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; 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; What works in keeping children safe?: 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): What works for vulnerable groups?: Background; General health and immunisation; Mental health and emotional well-being; Education; Settled safe accommodation; What helps?; 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.