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L B Schorr

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PubMed1991

Children, families and the cycle of disadvantage.

It is possible to reduce rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, arrests for violent crime, and long term dependence on welfare. Programs that have improved outcomes among children in disadvantaged families provide access to an array of services cross professional and bureaucratic boundaries, emphasize relationships of trust and respect, are deeply rooted in the community, are family focused, and recognize the distinctive needs of those most at risk. If health, mental health, social service and education programs with these attributes are to reach the large numbers who need them, the systems within which these programs operate must be restructured.

Canada↗
PubMed1985

1984 update on the world economic crisis and the children: a United States case study.

A previously published report by these authors on the impact in the United States of recession on children's health emphasized four points: available monitoring systems are not adequate for reporting on the health of children in a timely fashion; the monitoring of maternal and child health must emphasize data on population subgroups, i.e., minorities, the poor and those hardest hit by recession; the health of poor children is adversely affected and their numbers dramatically increased during the recession of 1981-82; and comparisons between the recession of 1974-75 and that of 1981-82 suggest that expansion of health services and social support systems during the recession of 1974-75 had a cushioning effect that protected the health of children, while the curtailment of many of these programs during the 1981-82 recession is associated with adverse health trends, especially among the most vulnerable population subgroups. Data on these issues are appreciably better now than they were nine months ago, thus further validating the points made above. As with the previous report, officially released current data are abundant for economic indicators (even for early 1984), but are sparse for health status indicators. The previous report also observed that the health status of children is influenced by interdependent and interlocking factors that include economic well-being and access to health services and social supports. A new analysis attempts to unlock those relationships and measure the impact of lost welfare benefits, implemented as a result of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 (OBRA), and the separate impact of the serious recession of 1981-82. That analysis shows the poverty rate for children increased by 7.6 percentage points between 1981 and 1982. Approximately 60 percent of the increase is attributable to the recession and 40 percent to social policy changes effected after 1981.

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PubMed1985

The world economic crisis and the children: United States case study.

This is a review of the United States experience with issues of child health and services as they relate to changes in economic trends. No existing data systems are entirely adequate for reporting on the current health status of children. An important consideration for the monitoring of children's health in the United States is the status of subgroups such as those who are disadvantaged for reasons of poverty, discrimination or geographic isolation. Ample evidence confirms that children living in poverty suffer adverse health consequences and that the proportion of children living in poverty in the United States has increased steadily since 1975 and dramatically since 1981. Most measures of health status and health risks for children show steady improvements throughout the 1970s. The exercise of public responsibility for financing and providing essential services and supports held constant or improved during this period, especially during the recession of 1974-75. The health status and risks for children since 1981 appear to be adversely affected which must be attributed to a combination of circumstances that include serious recession, increased poverty rates for households with children and diminished health benefits and social support services. These findings suggest that when either local or widespread economic reversals are anticipated, health services and social supports for children need to be expanded rather than contracted.

Adolescent↗