Edwards L N, Grossman M
Med Care. 1982 Sep;20(9):915-30. doi: 10.1097/00005650-198209000-00005.
This article explores income and race differences in eight measures of the health of children ages 6 through 11 as assessed in the early 1960s. It is shown that both income and race differences in health are much less pronounced than they are in infant mortality and birth weight data. Significant differences are found in the health status of black and white children and of children from high- and low-income families, but these are primarily differences with respect to parent-reported (rather than physician-reported) health criteria and they by no means overwhelmingly favor the white or high-income children. These findings underscore the importance of treating children's health status as multidimensional. In addition, these findings will serve as a bench mark for studies of children's health using data for a more recent period.
本文探讨了20世纪60年代初对6至11岁儿童健康状况的八项衡量指标中的收入和种族差异。结果表明，健康方面的收入和种族差异远不如婴儿死亡率和出生体重数据中的差异那么明显。黑人和白人儿童以及高收入和低收入家庭儿童的健康状况存在显著差异，但这些差异主要体现在家长报告（而非医生报告）的健康标准方面，而且绝不是压倒性地有利于白人或高收入家庭的儿童。这些发现强调了将儿童健康状况视为多维度的重要性。此外，这些发现将为使用近期数据进行的儿童健康研究提供一个基准。
