Social capital: a key factor in child health inequalities
Open Access
- 1 May 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 89 (5), 456-459
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2002.024422
Abstract
The widening gap in health outcomes between rich and poor is particularly evident among children and social inequalities in health are therefore of great concern to readers of this journal. Reducing inequalities in health is an important component of UK health policy.Keywords
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