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. 2025 Jul 13;9(1):e002676.
doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2024-002676.

Respiratory health of street and working children: challenges and opportunities

Samyuktha Umashankar  1 , Ramiyya Tharumakunarajah  2   3 , Alice Lee  4   5 , Sugandi Savithri  4 , Daniel B Hawcutt  5   6 , Ian P Sinha  7   5
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Respiratory health of street and working children: challenges and opportunities

Samyuktha Umashankar et al. BMJ Paediatr Open. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Child Health; HIV; Health Policy; Mortality.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: DH is part funded by the NIHR Alder Hey Clinical Research Facility; the funder had no involvement in this article. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care or Health Data Research UK.

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Figure 1. Community-intervention square showing the necessary stakeholders and service users required for place-based approaches to health improvement in vulnerable groups. Bringing these groups together with open lines of communication, shared vision and a goal to effect both service, community and population-level structural change will be necessary to improve the respiratory health of street children.
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