Nursery World - Health & Well-Being: Poor form?

Dr Ronny Cheung, author of International Comparisons of Health and Wellbeing, talks to Meredith Jones Russell about the UK’s health outcomes for babies and young children

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International Comparisons of Health and Wellbeing – a 2018 report for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the Nuffield Trust – assessed 14 OECD countries, including the UK. It found UK outcomes had improved across nine of 16 child health areas in the past decade, including reductions in the rate of infant deaths.

Are we doing well overall internationally?

There are things we do pretty well, but there are not many areas in which we are world-leaders. There are some areas we do extremely poorly in. Despite all the issues with the MMR vaccine in the 1990s, immunisation rates had been steadily improving, but have started slipping in the past couple of years.

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