Archives of Disease in Childhood 2008;93:915-917
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Paediatricians and the UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries
School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; n.j.spencer@warwick.ac.uk
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The recently published United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) review of child well-being1 concluded that children in the United Kingdom had the worst level of well-being of the 21 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The review ranked countries on six dimensions of well-being. These were material well-being, health and safety, educational well-being, family and peer relationships, behaviours and risks, and subjective well-being. Each dimension was informed by three components, which are themselves made up of a variable number of indicators. For example, the three components of the material well-being dimension were relative income poverty, households without jobs and reported deprivation. Relative income poverty was represented by the percentage of children living in homes with equivalent incomes less than 50% of the national median, households without jobs by percentage of children in households without an employed adult and reported deprivation by the percentage of children reporting low
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