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Child Health and Mortality

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Child health is a major indicator of the direction and well-being of society. It is a significant factor predicting health and productivity in adult life, and the health of adults in turn affects the well-being of the next generation of children. The most important outstanding issues include determining the most cost-effective investments in child health, explaining the relationship between health and socio-economic status over the life course, and finding the interventions that are most effective in breaking the inter-generational cycle of ill health and poverty. As children are economic actors in their own right, their well-being is worthy of study.

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Currie, J. (2018). Child Health and Mortality. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2828

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