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These steps can help narrow Italy’s regional gaps and improve life chances for every child.

➡️ The geography of child disability is the geography of inequality — but new data can guide smarter policy.

📄 paper 👉 ifs.org.uk/publications...

(n/n)

👶 Enhance early detection and intervention programmes in disadvantaged areas — early action changes life trajectories.
💶 Expand financial support for low-income families raising disabled children.
(7/n)

Policy lessons 🧩
🎯 Target resources and interventions in regions with higher disability rates — especially southern Italy.
🏥 Improve socio-economic and environmental conditions + strengthen healthcare quality and accessibility through specialist services & telemedicine.
(6/n)

🏥 Local context shapes children’s lives.
Higher disability rates appear where:
• economic vulnerability is high
• employment is low
• avoidable & infant mortality are higher
• families must travel for care (“health emigration”).
(5/n)

💰 Family income matters.
Children from the poorest families are almost twice as likely to be disabled as those in the richest deciles — even when using pre-birth parental earnings.
(4/n)

🧭 A clear North–South divide emerges and widens with age — also for more severe disabilities — a pattern that may reflect both later diagnosis in areas with weaker health systems and the cumulative effects of poorer living conditions in the South.
(3/n)

📍 For the first time, we provide a nationally representative map of child disability in Italy: 105,000 children (2.5%) are officially certified as disabled. (2/n)