1 Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland sarah.dalglish@gmail.com.
2 Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
3 Unicef, Beirut, Lebanon.
4 Centro de Investigación en Salud Materna e Infantil, Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral y Sostenible and School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Lima, Peru.
5 Institute for Global Health, University College, London, UK.
6 Department of Geography and Division of Epidemiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
7 Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
8 School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
9 National Health Systems Resource Center, New Delhi, India.
10 International Center for Equity in Health, Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.
Current global child health strategies have reduced wealth based inequities in care seeking for childhood illness, but we need much greater emphasis on equity in strategy design and implementation, say Sarah L Dalglish and colleagues