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Understanding socio-economic inequalities in childhood respiratory health

Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2006

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Recent evidence has shown a socio-economic gradient in its … distribution. This paper examines whether a number of factors argued to have led to a rise in the incidence of asthma might also … history of asthma, poor child health at birth, maternal age at child's birth and local deprivation. We find that each of these …

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Health Supplier Quality and the Distribution of Child Health

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2005

There is emerging evidence to suggest that initial differentials between the health of poor and more affluent children in the UK do not widen over early childhood. One reason may be that through the universal public funded health care system all children have access to equally effective primary...

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The Impact of Low Income on Child Health: Evidence from a Birth Cohort Study

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associated with better health for children. Wealthier parents may have more advantaged children because they have more income to buy health care or because parental wealth is associated with beneficial behaviours or because...

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