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Poverty
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Poverty and Child Health. Edited by Nick Spencer. (Pp 249; £18.50 paperback.) Radcliffe Medical Press, 1996. ISBN 1-857775-068-3 .
Are there really still poor people in Britain? Will the poor always be with us? Can the health service do anything about it anyway? Never a disbeliever in poverty, I have become a sceptic of late on the possibilities of doctors making a difference. But no longer, after reading Poverty and Child Health. It challenged me, gave me fresh ammunition, and provided some very good pointers for action. And, indeed, action is needed, by our college and by every paediatrician in the country, if we …