Good Health to All: Reducing Health Inequalities among Children in High- and Low-Income Canadian Families

Claire de Oliveira
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C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, 2009, issue 288

Abstract: Improving the health of children in low-income families, which is chronically worse than that of richer children, requires well-targeted policy reforms. This report identifies the policies that would, for families across different income groups, best address inequality in the health of children.

Keywords: social policy; health in children of low-income families; healthy lifestyles awareness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I18 I32 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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