Promoting Better Policies for Children.
Backgrounder 20. Published March 2002
Innes Asher, Dee Parks, and Carolyn Dakin
Socio-economic inequalities acting during the foetal and childhood period cumulatively contribute to adult health inequalities. Cumulative disadvantage over the life course, and formal and informal institutional rules that discriminate against less powerful social groups, have been proposed … as the dominant factors in creating a cycle that locks in health inequalities … ” ( ).
” The primary determinants of disease are mainly economic and social, and therefore its remedies must also be economic and social. Medicine and politics cannot and should not be kept apart.” ( )
