This freshly published study from the International Journal of Public Health aimed to assess the presence and magnitude of inequalities in mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children.<\/p>\n
The study used data from the KIDSCREEN <\/a>project and included 16,210 parent-child paris, aged 8-18 years coming from 11 European countries (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and UK.<\/p>\n The results showed consistent inequalities in mental health in all countries according to family level of education. The results were less consistent by age and country regarding HRQOL.<\/p>\n The authors identify the need for future research to clarify the causes of these inequalities and to define initiatives which prevent them continuing into adulthood.<\/p>\n *************************************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n This study was written by Luis Rajmil<\/a>, Michael Herdma<\/a>n, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer<\/a>, Michael Erhart<\/a>, Jordi Alonso <\/a>and the European KIDSCREEN <\/a>group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This freshly published study from the International Journal of Public Health aimed to assess the presence and magnitude of inequalities in mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children. The study used data from the KIDSCREEN project and included 16,210 parent-child paris, aged 8-18 years coming from 11 European countries (Austria, Czech Republic,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,21],"tags":[39,153,386,407,494,563,815],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","category-social-inequalities","tag-adolescents","tag-children","tag-health-related-quality-of-life","tag-hrqol","tag-kidscreen","tag-mental-health","tag-socioeconomic-inequalites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}