Smoking Exposure
Poor kids are more than twice as likely as nonpoor kids to live in a household with someone who smokes.
This report explores health disparities between poor and nonpoor kids in five areas: environmental health, health insurance coverage, access to health care services, healthy behaviors and health outcomes. It also spotlights real-world strategies for addressing some of these inequalities and advocates a simple end goal: Give all kids — no matter what their family finances — a positive, healthy start.
Family finances aren’t the only thing dividing poor kids from their wealthier counterparts. A pair of national surveys has found that, among the have’s and have not’s, kids are sharply split when it comes to their health. Poor kids are more likely to have asthma, be overweight or obese and struggle with food insecurity. This list of risks runs on and on and makes one thing clear: In America, nonpoor kids have the advantage when it comes to growing up healthy and strong.
