This timely resource brings child health to the forefront of global health and the crucial goal of universal equity of care. Its resource-based framework offers a contemporary perspective on factors driving child health disparities, specific vulnerabilities of underserved children, and ways readers can become effective advocates for children. The book critiques current child health policy worldwide, examining both policies that are helping to alleviate and are contributing to further inequities. And the authors provide an extensive toolkit to aid professionals in multidimensional screening for a child, newborn, maternal, and post-natal health as well as socioeconomic determinants of health.