While the Government has made pledges to prioritise children’s health, cuts to public health services and uncertainties about Brexit pose substantial threats to progress, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) claims.
The State of Child Health: Two years on scorecard evaluates the extent to which the Government has made progress on recommendations made in the RCPCH’s 2017 landmark report.
This was the first report to bring together data on 25 measures of the health of UK children, ranging from conditions such as asthma, diabetes and epilepsy, risk factors for poor health such as obesity and a low rate of breastfeeding, to child deaths.
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