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Children’s Health Index

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Synonyms

Child Development Index (CDI); Child health index of Goteborg (Northeast); Child Health Indicators of Life and Development (CHILD); Children’s health indicators; Headline indicators for children’s health, development, and well-being; Indicators of child health and well-being in Greenland; Municipal indicators for children’s health in Sweden

Definition

The children’s health index is defined as the quantitative measure of children’s well-being and the monitoring of children’s health and related factors on a national or international level.

Description

Child health indicators is a topic of great interest in many countries. In the last years, a significant number of research studies have been done on international, on national, and on sub-national level. The relevant research studies examine the children’s health and its dimensions, individually or as a determinant factor of general systems monitoring welfare, sustainability, and welfare policies e.g., (United Nations Children’s...

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  1. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Unit of Econometrics and Applied Statistics, Ispra, Italy

    Dionisis Philippas

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Roma, Italy

    Filomena Maggino

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Mara Tognetti

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Philippas, D. (2023). Children’s Health Index. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_348

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