Laboratory for Mother and Child Health, Public Health Department, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy.
Dipartimento di Anestesia-Rianimazione e Emergenza Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 11;18(6):2844. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18062844.
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.
儿童健康不平等侵犯了儿童享有最佳福祉的权利。世界各地的不同问题影响儿童的身心健康和发展，影响他们成年后的未来。不平等是可以避免的不平等。尽管在过去二十年中有所改善，但全球议程的雄心勃勃目标在很大程度上仍然只是停留在儿童权利、社会正义和健康公平方面的期望，而在实践中并未实现。健康的社会决定因素这一概念已成为某些环境中的常用语，但这对于改善全球范围内的健康状况来说还远远不够，尤其是对于儿童和青少年等弱势群体来说更是如此。儿科保健专业人员及其组织也有责任保障儿童和青少年的健康权和更好的福祉，帮助减少健康不平等。
