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Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(11):1063-1064.

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Clinicians always inherit the results of bad social policy. Sooner or later, deleterious or ineffective policies will find clinical expression in patterns of illness, hospitalization, and ultimately death. History has shown that this cascade is never more intense than for children, a group exquisitely dependent on the adequacy of societal nurturance and protection. There is no question, therefore, that the current recession, the deepest since the Great Depression, will touch virtually all pediatric practices.

Children are poor because their parents are poor, a fact that ties the well-being of children to the employment status of young adults. As of June 2009, the overall unemployment rate reached 9.5%, the highest in a generation, and it is expected to reach levels unseen since World War II.¹ These figures are far worse for African American and Latino families. If one uses a broader unemployment definition that includes workers . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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