[EQ] Equity and child-survival strategies

Equity and child-survival strategies

EK Mulholland ^a, L Smith ^b, I Carneiro ^b, H Becher ^c, D Lehmann ^d

Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Volume 86, Number 5, May 2008, 321-416

Available online at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/5/07-044545/en/index.html

“……In human rights law, the term “equity” is used to represent equality with fairness. This is synonymous with the notion of distributive justice, or fair distribution of good things within a society, whether they be material possessions, access to health care, or simply survival. There is nothing that highlights the inequity of our world more starkly than child mortality, and we believe that pneumonia is the cause of childhood death that most strongly reflects this inequity.

Between countries the differences in child mortality rates are enormous and well documented. For a child born today, the risk of death in the first 5 years of life in Japan is 6 per 1000, while in Afghanistan, Angola and Sierra Leone the risk is over 40 times as great.¹ This is considering survival only; the chances of a child fulfilling their cognitive and growth potential are similarly inequitable….”

Affiliations

a.        Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England.

b.        Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England.

c.        Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

d.        Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, West Perth, Australia.

 

 

May 2008 - Bulletin table of content at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/5/en/

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