Child health should be election issue, say doctors

Measures to protect children’s health should be put at the forefront of the general election, say doctors.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said child health was falling “to the wayside”, with too much attention on the elderly.

It said there was large public support for junk food advertising bans, cooking lessons in school and lowering speed limits.

It added that such measures would make moral, economic and political sense.  Full article

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