Citation

Kasper J. Child Welf. 2010; 89(5): 21-36.

Affiliation

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Child Welfare League of America)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21361155

Abstract

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a universally accepted tool to understand the social underpinnings of child health that medicine alone cannot address. Injustices plague U.S. society: Child poverty has been increasing since 2000, and the gap between the wealthiest and poorest is growing. Poverty is a toxic stress on child health and well-being. Three articles from the CRC help frame how to address this: nondiscrimination, the right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health and access to health care, and the right to a standard of living adequate for complete development.

Language: en