The Socioeconomic Gradient of Health is very very prevalent not just in BC but around the world. You always see that the children who have access to the most resources are doing relatively well and the ones who don\u2019t are not. But there\u2019s not a cut off, there\u2019s not a magic cut off. You see that this threshold holds at every level of socioeconomic status. And of course it raises questions about equity and inequality. How come that in a society in which we have a lot of resources, a lot of wealth overall a lot of the children are cut off from the access to these resources and what can we do to change that to make it a more equitable society. So what we see both on the EDI and all of our other measures that there are very, very stark socioeconomic gradients in regards to children\u2019s well-being, in regard to their academic achievement, in regard to other indicators of their health and the question is why is that the case. So by providing that information at the local level to policy makers, to schools, to parents, we\u2019re trying to also motivate people to do something about because there\u2019s \u2013 from an equity perspective, from a child right perspective, from an ethical perspective – there\u2019s nothing to justify that we see these extremely stark differences between the haves and the have nots in virtually every outcome that there is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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