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Analysing and promoting the health of children

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Management for Child Health Services

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Prevention of death and disability early in life makes the maximum contribution towards increasing life expectancy and its quality, and towards the saving of health care resources. Moreover, there is increasing recognition that maintenance and promotion of health from conception through childhood will contribute materially towards the quality of adult health.

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  1. Eva Alberman
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  1. Centre for Health Planning and Management, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Michael Rigby

  2. Mary Sheridan Centre for Child Health, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, London, UK

    Euan M. Ross

  3. PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London, UK

    Norman T. Begg

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Alberman, E. (1998). Analysing and promoting the health of children. In: Rigby, M., Ross, E.M., Begg, N.T. (eds) Management for Child Health Services. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3144-3_6

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