Research finds that children with poor mental health limit their ability to live in the future | Children’s health
According to research by leading thinkers, children with severe mental health in Great Britain are two-thirds more likely to work as adults.
this Report Researchers from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) studied data from approximately 6,000 people participating in the 1970 British cohort study, which followed the lives of individuals born in the UK in 1970.
Analysis found that people who had severe psychological and behavioral problems as children were 85% more likely to have depression symptoms at age 51, and long-term illnesses may affect their ability to work.
According to the analysis, children with physical health problems have a limited capacity of 38%.
The government has promised to “foster the healthiest children in our history.” Labor has committed to introducing a targeted national dental hygiene program to reduce pediatric waiting time with an additional 2m operation and set a 9pm watershed for junk food advertising.
IPPR recommends that the government safeguard children’s spending and preventive spending on NHS and other public services and expand the role of the Children’s Commissioner.
In January, The Guardian reported that the number of children transferred to emergency mental health care in England increased by 10% in a year, and the waiting list for routine NHS care was lengthy pushing towards a crisis point.
Previous IPPR’s research estimates that the hidden costs of rising workplace diseases in the UK exceed £100 billion a year, and employees now lose 44 days of productivity due to illness work, up to 35 days in 2018.
Amy Gandon, an associate researcher with IQ and a former senior government official in child health, said: “Successful governments have failed to face the long-term consequences of the health of impoverished children. If the government takes the establishment of a preventive state seriously, decisive action must be taken to improve the prospects for our children and young people.
“More importantly, the dividends that do so don’t take decades; for example, the right action now – for those who join the workforce within a few years, it can provide better health, opportunities and growth within that council.”
“The sooner we address the physical and mental health challenges of children, the more likely we are to prevent costly health conditions and ineffectiveness in life later. This is not only a matter of improving personal life, but also easing the long-term pressure on the state on the long term.”
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Social Care said: “As this report shows, prevention is better than cure. That’s why this week, we expanded our mental health team at schools to nearly a million children.
“We are investing an additional £680 million in mental health services, recruiting 8,500 additional mental health workers and providing 345,000 speech therapy.
“Through our change program, we will address the mental health crisis and make every child’s life begin to be healthy.”
