Socioeconomic barriers preventing children and young people living with long-term health conditions from achieving optimal outcomes

Children and young people living with a chronic illness (CI) and faced with poverty are less likely to benefit from medical advances than their more affluent peers.1–3 Clinical outcomes are poorer,1–4 setting these children on a trajectory of lifelong disadvantage. Inequality may be due to a variety of factors: some require action at a political level, while others could be addressed closer to home. In the Liverpool City Region, more than 80 000 children and young people are growing up in poverty. We undertook a scoping exercise in collaboration with Health Junction, an independent, not-for-profit community interest company. The aim was to gather the views of parents and healthcare professionals (HCPs) involved in managing children with CI living in poverty to identify the barriers preventing them from achieving optimal health, to guide service improvements. Between April...

Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - July 19, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Blair, J. C., Aitken, C., Smith, J., Ghatak, A., Jones, C. A., Thursfield, R., Oni, L. Tags: PostScript Source Type: research