Child Health and Mortality

Janet Currie

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2828

Child Health and Mortality

Janet Currie

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Child health is a major indicator of the direction and well-being of society. It is a significant factor predicting health and productivity in adult life, and the health of adults in turn affects the well-being of the next generation of children. The most important outstanding issues include determining the most cost-effective investments in child health, explaining the relationship between health and socioeconomic status over the life course, and finding the interventions that are most effective in breaking the inter-generational cycle of ill health and poverty. As children are economic actors in their own right, their well-being is worthy of study.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Third Edition
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	1561-1566
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781349951895
ISBN (Print)	9781349951888
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2828
State	Published - Jan 1 2018

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General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
General Business, Management and Accounting

Keywords

Anthropometrics
Asymmetric information
Child health and mortality
Education
Family economics
Fertility in developed countries
Fertility in developing countries
Health care
Health economics
Health insurance
Human capital
Mortality
Pollution
Poverty alleviation programmes
Productivity
Public health
Risk

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