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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:503-505
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Reprints and Reflections

Commentary: Socioeconomic inequalities and child growth

Mercedes de Onis

Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland. E-mail: deonism@who.ch

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The article by John Pemberton ‘Malnutrition in England‘, which appeared in the University College Hospital Magazine in 1934,1 looked at the effects of poor nutrition on child health at a time when this was considered a major problem in Britain. The paper raised a key association that nowadays no one would refute, that of deprivation with poor nutrition and impaired child growth. Dr Pemberton based his observation on an analysis of the cost of providing the minimum diet, as recommended by the British Medical Association, for a typical family consisting of a husband and wife and three children, versus the statutory unemployment benefit for such a family. The comparison permitted Pemberton to conclude that they could buy at the least 48%, and at . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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