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The Role Poverty Plays in Pediatric Healthcare

Pediatric nurse practitioners help improve health outcomes.

Pediatric nurse practitioners recognize that children need regular access to quality healthcare to help them grow and thrive. Yet for 356 million of the world’s children who live in poverty,1 access to pediatric healthcare may be so limited that it profoundly restricts their ability to grow and thrive over lifetimes.2

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Poverty and Child Health in the United States, a report from the Council on Community Pediatrics, says poverty has a “profound effect on specific circumstances,” which include:2

  • Birth weight
  • Infant mortality
  • Language development
  • Chronic illness 
  • Environmental exposure
  • Nutrition
  • Injury
  • Self-regulation  

Poverty also affects how many children receive life-saving vaccines, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study: “Coverage was lower for most vaccines among uninsured children and those insured by Medicaid, compared with those having private health insurance, and for children living outside of metropolitan statistical areas.”3

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