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 … access has an impact on their health at birth and on their health during early childhood. The results suggest that children …

A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic … determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether …

Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health … aspects of child mental health from two major UK surveys. We test whether the different observers give reports that are … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

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