- Title
- Growth faltering as a metric of social exclusion and poverty
- Creator
- Boulton, John
- Relation
- Aboriginal Children, History and Health: Beyond Social Determinants p. 175-191
- Relation
- https://www.routledge.com/Aboriginal-Children-History-and-Health-Beyond-Social-Determinants/Boulton/p/book/9781138955257
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Growth faltering is an index of a child's health and population morbidity. In the short term growth faltering from malnutrition increases the risk of serious infection and acts as a barrier to intellectual and emotional development through the impairment of exploratory behaviour. In the long term it is a central causal factor in the risk of future premature cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The presence of widespread (endemic) growth faltering is a second order metric of exclusion of Aboriginal people from mainstream society. This sign of lack of health amongst children signifies hunger from a degree of entrenched poverty that does not affect any other population within Australia. Growth faltering from an insufficient intake of weaning food to sustain a normal rate of growth is emblematic of, and an exemplar for, how structural violence is mediated through intergenerational effects on health.
- Subject
- social exclusion; poverty; childrens health; Indigenous Australians
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1343258
- Identifier
- uon:29115
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138955240
- Language
- eng
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