Social Disadvantage and Infection in Childhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2248406 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Reading (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 395-414 |
| Publication date | 1997-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1997.tb00410.x |
| OpenAlex | W1983730283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 54 |
Although the literature on health inequalities in childhood is extensive, relatively little has been written about social differences in infectious disease. This is despite the strong association between poverty and infection noted historically, the continuing importance of infection as a cause of childhood mortality and morbidity, the resurgence of infectious disease as a public health problem and the increasing proportions of children living in poverty. This paper reviews the evidence, mainly from the United Kingdom, which shows that wide inequalities continue to occur in most types of infectious disease in childhood and the consequences stretch into adulthood. Possible reasons for the continuing association of poverty and infection in an age of high standards of hygiene, sanitation, and health care are discussed. Environmental and material factors are likely to have a stronger influence than social differences in behaviour, attitudes and lifestyle, and they can affect susceptibility to infection at the level of individuals, family, and community, and in access to health care. More emphasis needs to be placed on structural and community wide interventions than those directed at changing individual behaviour if a reduction in inequalities in childhood infection is to be achieved
Developmental psychology · Disadvantage · Disease · Economic growth · Environmental health · Hygiene · Inequality · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Political science · Poverty · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Sanitation · Social determinants of health · Social inequality · Sociology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Gerontology
The modern rise of population
The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health
Explanations for socio-economic differentials in mortality
Poverty
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
The Changing Financial Circumstances of Households with Children
The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain's Mortality Decline c .1850–1914
Social epidemiology of chickenpox in two British national cohorts
Tackling Inequalities in Health
Accumulation of factors influencing respiratory illness in members of a national birth cohort and their offspring
Association of infant alimentary and respiratory illness with parental smoking and other environmental factors
The Causes of Rapid Infant Mortality Decline in England and Wales, 1861–1921. Part II
The Rationale for a Composite Index of Social Class and Its Evaluation
Gender and class as dimensions of smoking behaviour in Britain
Social patterning of medical mortality in youth and early adulthood
Socioeconomic disadvantage and child morbidity
The measurement of inequities in health
Social selection
Cigarette Smoking
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2019 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |