How Poverty Affects Health And Well-being Of Children In The UK: A Literature Review

Literature Review

This research depicts an introduction section, literature review, methodology, project outline, and timetable. The introduction section could facilitate to gain the conceptual understanding about the research matter. Furthermore, the literature review section could support to demonstrate many things like. Literature search strategy, search engines that will be used for a literature review, and databases. The research methodology section could be imperative for selecting a suitable method to collect appropriate information in the context of the current matter. The project deadline demonstrates the structure that will be followed by the researcher to complete their study. The project outline considers many stages named introduction, literature review, research methodology, data analysis and findings, and conclusion and recommendation. It could be effective for effectively conducting the research and reach the valid conclusion

In the current era, it is effective for the health organization to comprehend the role of poverty in the health and well-being of Children who come in the age group of 0 -17 years. Further, poverty becomes a major issue for an individual because it creates a health issue for the firm (Bor, Dean, Najman, and Hayatbakhsh, 2014).  It is evaluated that poverty could directly impact on poverty as it damages childhoods. In the evaluation of UK data, it is found that the child poverty expenditure is expected at least 29 billion Euro in one year as it could decline the tax receipts. Further, children who have confronted from the poverty issues could feel hopeless, insecure, and worthless that could be a negative impact on the country growth (Dickerson, and Popli, 2016). Poor children have also been lack of confidence that could create higher frustration level among children. It could also be a negative impact on the health of children. This research is effective for the investigator as it facilitates them to improve their research skills that would be effective for conducting the research in the future. It could be effective to comprehend many search engines that will lead to conduct the research in a suitable manner (England, 2015).  

In the UK, poverty is being a major concern for the country as it influence the overall situation of the country. Poverty could be situation wherein an individual and community has lacks of financial resources and required for the least standard of living (Dickerson, and Popli, 2016). It is examined that females were more affected by the poverty as compared to the male. From the study of UK, it is found that the poverty rate for non-disabled people are 17.9 while 23.1  is for disabled people. But, at the same time, it is found that the if the extra expenses is considered then the poverty rate for the individuals with disabilities were found 47.4%. There are certain policy that are implemented by the UK to decline poverty named Means-tested welfare benefits, direct provision of goods/services, and minimum wages.    

• What are the meaning and concept of health issue and well-being?
• What is the role of poverty affect the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK?
• What are the consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK
• What are strategies for improving and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK?

Methodology

The main aim of this research is to address the role of role of poverty affect the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK. For completing this aim, a researcher will imply many research objectives that are discussed as below:

• To explore the meaning and concept of health issue and well-being
• To identify the role of poverty affect the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK
• To understand the Consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK
• To recommend strategies for improving and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK

The research methodology section is effective for selecting a suitable method to conduct the research and get reliable information about research matter. There are certain strategies that could be select by the investigator to conduct the research named research strategies, research approaches, data collection method, data analysis method, and ethical consideration. The research methodology could be a systematic way that is used for getting conceptual and numerical information towards the research issue. It could be imperative for getting feasible information and meet the research matter (Rawlins, Pimkina, Barrett, Pedersenand Wydick, 2014).      

The research strategy will lead the investigator to operate their study and meet the desired goal. This method could entail certain research strategies for obtaining the reliable result in the favor of current research named survey through questionnaire method, content analysis, literature review, and case study analysis method. It could be imperative for getting a reliable outcome. This research is subjective in nature hence researcher will imply a survey through questionnaire and literature review method. The literature review method is vital for getting the depth information from the existing sources and make a suitable decision (Barer, 2017).    

The research design could also lead to get the information towards the research issue and make operate their research and get a reliable outcome. In addition, search design employed certain methods named qualitative, qualitative, and mixed research design. Moreover, the researcher will consider the qualitative research design methodology to collect the information towards the How does poverty affect the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK. It will be imperative in the accomplishment of the research task. This task is suitable as compared to the other method because it is time effective. Moreover, this method could lead to getting theoretical information with respect to the current issue. It could be a major advantage for the researcher to meet the goal of the research. Apart from this, this research is quite costly that could be a negative impact on the overall performance of the research study (Emerson, Blacher, Einfeld, Hatton, Robertson, and Stancliffe, 2014).    

The data collection method could be imperative for getting the information towards the research issues. There are creation kinds of methods which could be considered in the research study like primary and secondary data collection method. In this study, the secondary data collection tool will be used by the researcher to conduct research and meet the aim and objectives of the research issue as it could be considered by these sources named articles, books, online and offline sources, government sites, and magazine. Moreover, primary data collection tool will not be practiced by the researcher because this method could be more costly as compared to other method. This research is subjective in nature hence researcher will select the secondary data as compared to the primary data collection method (Ormandy, 2014). This method could be more reliable as compared to other data collection method.

Keywords used to search in Emerald	Filters used to refine the search	Results i.e. no. of  papers found	Comments or reasons
Meaning and concept of poverty in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	96960 articles found	A maximum number of papers found.
Impact of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	38 articles found	A small number of papers found.
Role of poverty in health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	41 papers found	Papers found helps to address the Role of poverty in health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK
Consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	19 papers found	Fewer papers found and it helps to find out consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children
Strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	49 papers found	Fewer Papers found and it helps to address the strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK

Keywords used to search in ACM	Filters used to refine the search	Results i.e. no. of  papers found	Comments or reasons
Meaning and concept of poverty in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	175,624 articles found	Many papers found that helps to understand Meaning and concept of poverty in the UK
Impact of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	151,856 articles found including articles and journals	A maximum number of papers found.
Role of poverty in health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	151,052 papers found	Many papers founds
Consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	151,855 papers found	Many papers found that helps to find out the consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK
Strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	151,108 papers found	A large number of papers found.

Project Outline and Timetable

Keywords used to search in Sage Journals	Filters used to refine the search	Results i.e. no. of  papers found	Comments or reasons
Meaning and concept of poverty in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	Total of 4928 sage journals found	Many papers found that helps to find out the meaning and concept of poverty in the UK
Impact of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	143 articles found including articles and journals	Papers found to address the impact of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK
Role of poverty in health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	156 papers found	Less number of journals found.
Consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	104 papers found	Few papers found that helps to address the consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK
Strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	Only 53 paper found	Papers found to identify the strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK

Keywords used to search in ScienceDirect	Filters used to refine the search	Results i.e. no. of  papers found	Comments or reasons
Meaning and concept of poverty in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	Total of 2217 journals found	Many papers found
Impact of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	450 articles found including articles and journals	Many papers found
Role of poverty in health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	430 papers found	Many papers found.
Consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	322 papers found	Few papers found.
Strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	1550 papers found	Many papers found.

Keywords used to search in Scholarly Articles	Filters used to refine the search	Results i.e. no. of  papers found	Comments or reasons
Meaning and concept of poverty in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	29,300 results articles found	Many articles found
Impact of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	17,800 results found including articles and journals	Many papers found
Role of poverty in health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	13,600 papers found	Maximum papers found.
Consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	17,300 papers found	Many papers found
Strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	17,400 papers found	Many papers found

Keywords used to search in Scholarly Articles	Filters used to refine the search	Results i.e. no. of  papers found	Comments or reasons
Meaning and concept of poverty in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	3820 articles found	Many articles found
Impact of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	99 articles	Few papers found
Role of poverty in health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	555 papers found	Many papers found.
Consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	426 papers found	Many papers found
Strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	980 papers found	Many papers found

Keywords used to search in Scholarly Articles	Filters used to refine the search	Results i.e. no. of  papers found	Comments or reasons
Meaning and concept of poverty in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	4507 articles found	Many articles found
Impact of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	69 articles	Few papers found
Role of poverty in health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	353 papers found	A moderate number of papers found.
Consequences of poverty on health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	232 papers found	Few papers found
Strategies to improve the health and well-being of Children age 0 -17 years in the UK	Years used from 2013-2018	142 papers found	Many papers found

An article having a good research question

A reliable research question could demonstrate that the article fully relies on the research topic. Moreover, it is examined that suitable research questions could enhance the interest of the reader towards the research article. An effective research question could also demonstrate what will purpose and aim of this study that could also be imperative for the researcher to select any paper. Further, it is evaluated that, in the literature search, the researcher will always be also remembered that the research paper should have reliable research questions (Michalos, 2014). 

Before selection of the article, it is mandatory for the investigator to deeply comprehend the writing quality of the article. Further, quality of paper could be imperative for the researcher to easily comprehend the research and gain their existing knowledge in less time. The article content should be reliable, comprehensible, and precise for easily understand the research matter. The article could also have suitable research methodology to comprehend the methods that will be used to get the data in the favor of research concern (Schoon, 2014).  

The researcher will also remain that they should not consider or involve those paper that is very old because it could decline not to be effective for the accomplishment of the current aim and objectives of the researcher. The new paper could be more reliable for spreading information towards the research issue. The old article could demonstrate the old data that could be not suitable for accomplishing the aim and objectives of the research matter (Angrave and Charlwood, 2015).         

Research ethics could be an effective section of the study that is implied to increase the research appropriateness and their obtained outcome. However, there are higher probabilities of available ethical doubts that could be based on information manipulation, data privacy, and plagiarism.    

For the purpose of this research, ethical consideration would be related to a particular research strategy and technique, which would be implemented by an investigator to reduce the chance of ethical concern. Furthermore, the secondary data could be collected from the creation sources like online websites, online and offline sources, books, and academic articles. These sources could be considered by the researcher to conduct the research and meet at a reliable conclusion (Jivraj, Nazroo, Vanhoutte, and Chandola, 2014). A researcher will also use suitable references and citation and enhance the authenticity of the research outcome. Apart from this, it is also evaluated that researcher will consider guidelines of the university and eliminate the probability of ethical issues form the research.           

Paper	Include/Exclude	Reason
Gerry Redmond  2014	X	Talks about only Poverty and Social Exclusion and does not discuss the health and well-being of children
Pedro Belo, Ricardo Pocinho, and Esperanza Navarro 2016	ü	Gives details about Analysis of the Impact of Leisure on Well-being and Distress in Ageing
Morag Henderson, Sin Yi Cheung, Elaine Sharland, Jonathan Scourfield 2015	ü	The effect of social work use on the mental health outcomes of parents and the life satisfaction of children in Britain
Kimberly A. Rollings, Nancy M. Wells, Gary W. Evans, Amanda Bednarz, Yizhao Yang 2017	X	Not needed in this research paper as it only discusses Housing and neighborhood physical quality: Children’s mental health and motivation and does not focus on poverty
Daiga Kamer?de, Matthew R Bennett 2017	ü	Explains Rewarding Work: Cross-National Differences in Benefits, Volunteering During Unemployment, Well-Being, and Mental Health
Michael J. Green, Haley Stritzel, Chelsea Smith, Frank Popham, Robert Crosnoe 2018	ü	Explains the Timing of poverty in childhood and adolescent health: Evidence from the US and UK
Carol Hardy1, Elizabeth Hackett1, Elizabeth Murphy1, Beatrice Cooper2, Tamsin Ford3, Susan Conroy4 2013	X	Not needed as it contains Mental health screening and early intervention: Clinical research study for under 5-year-old Children in Care in an inner London borough
Hannah Fairbrother, Penny Curtis, Elizabeth Goyder 2016	ü	Needed to understand the Making health information meaningful and Children’s health literacy practices
Kimberly A. Rollings, Nancy M. Wells, Gary W. Evans, Amanda Bednarz, Yizhao Yang 2017	X	Not needed as it contains Housing and neighborhood physical quality: Children’s mental health and motivation
Sally Brinkman and Fiona Stanley 2014	ü	Explains Public Health Aspects of Child Well-Being
David Morley, Kevin Till, Paul Ogilvie, Graham Turner 2015	X	Not needed as it contains the influence of gender and socioeconomic status on the motor proficiency of children in the UK
Daniel Sage. 2015	ü	Needed in this research. It identifies do Active Labor Market Policies Promote the Well-Being, Health and Social Capital of the Unemployed.
W. York and J. Jones .2017.	ü	Needed in this research as it addresses the mental health needs of looked after children in foster care: the experiences of foster careers

Impact of Poverty on Children’s Health and Well-being in the UK

Table 1: Research plan for completing the investigation

Activities that would be applied	Duration of finishing the research practices (in weeks)
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Selection of the research topic
Making research aim and objectives
Literature review
data collection method
Selection of data analysis method
Final draft
Report writing
Submitting a research project

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