Inequalities in the Universal Right to Health

Maurizio Bonati, Gianni Tognoni and Fabio Sereni
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Maurizio Bonati: Laboratory for Mother and Child Health, Public Health Department, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy
Gianni Tognoni: Dipartimento di Anestesia-Rianimazione e Emergenza Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy
Fabio Sereni: Department of Pediatrics, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 6, 1-8

Abstract: Child health inequalities violate children’s rights to optimal wellbeing. Different issues worldwide affect children’s physical and mental health as well as their development, influencing their future as adults. Inequities are avoidable inequalities. Despite improvements in the past two decades, the ambitious goals of global agendas have, for the most part, remained as expectations with regard to childhood rights, social justice, and health equity in practice. The concept of social determinants of health has become part of the common language in certain settings, but this is still too little to improve health in practice on a global scale, particularly for underprivileged subgroups of the community, as children and adolescents often are. Pediatric health professionals and their organizations are also responsible for guaranteeing children’s and adolescents’ right to health and better wellbeing, helping to reduce health inequalities.

Keywords: inequalities; human rights; health policies; epidemiological determinants; children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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