Cost of living crisis: a UK crisis with global implications – A call to action for paediatricians

ABSTRACT: The UK’s ‘cost of living crisis’ (COLC) has thrown millions of families into poverty in 2022, delivering an intensifying economic shock that will likely eclipse the financial impact of the global coronavirus pandemic for children, families and communities alike. But what is the relevance for paediatricians? Written by doctors who spend considerable time confronting social problems from clinical, public health and advocacy perspectives, this article aims to untangle the COLC for those working in child health and seeks to stimulate a meaningful conversation about how we might reimagine paediatrics for life in the 21st century. Taking the current crisis as our point of departure, we argue that the UK’s COLC can be best understood as a ‘crisis of inequality’, which has been created through soc

SUBMITTER: Singh G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9685256 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature