RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Child health statistical review, 1996.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 527
OP 533
DO 10.1136/adc.75.6.527
VO 75
IS 6
A1 Platt, M J
A1 Pharoah, P O
YR 1996
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/75/6/527.abstract
AB There is much evidence that the children born in the last decade of the 20th century are healthier and living longer than children born earlier this century, and that children born too small or too soon are now more likely to reach adulthood than similar children born 10 or 20 years ago. Yet measures of social disadvantage (poverty, underachievement in education, lone parenthood) are increasing, putting this generation of children at higher risk of morbidity later in life.