{"id":3057,"date":"2019-02-11T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2021-03-01T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:49:33","slug":"mja-insight-article-on-childhood-inequity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2019\/02\/11\/mja-insight-article-on-childhood-inequity\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies to support childhood inequity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A new article for InSight, the Medical Journal of Australia\u2019s online platform and highest circulating e-newsletter for medical professionals, provides strategies to create more equitable health care systems for children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children who start school with health and developmental problems are more likely to track forward to adulthood with poorer physical, cognitive and social outcomes than their peers.<\/p>\n<p>The article, written by Professor Sharon Goldfeld, Professor Harriet Hiscock, and Associate Professor Kim Dalziel, discusses opportunities and challenges for preventing avoidable inequities that cause differential health outcomes for children.<\/p>\n<p>The article suggests that addressing inequities early in life <em>\u201chas the potential to fundamentally change children\u2019s chances and create a healthier and more productive future adult population<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The existing universal health care provided by nurses for young children in Australia is proposed as an important platform to address inequities as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it is free for families<\/li>\n<li>it has services that are based on prevention and early intervention<\/li>\n<li>it has the potential to be re-oriented to ensure services are offered with a level and intensity based on need<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Community and specialist care services in Australia are other integral components of the healthcare system that can be optimised for children.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses how the cost of these services may act as <em>a barrier to access<\/em> for vulnerable families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insightplus.mja.com.au\/2019\/4\/an-unequal-start-addressing-child-health-inequities\/\">Access the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article in MJA InSight discusses strategies to enable equitable health care systems for children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":3058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5935,12000],"tags":[5946,11949,5963,12038,12037,11967],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-and-papers","category-childrens-health-and-development","tag-disadvantage","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-early-intervention","tag-equity","tag-inequity","tag-sharon-goldfeld"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}