A gyermekek életminőségének vizsgálata : regionális különbségek Magyarországon = The investigation of the childrens' quality of life : regional differences in Hungary

Children’s welfare has been a popular research topic in the past few decades, but researchers usually focus on the relationship between child well-being and trends in GDP. Nevertheless there are some drawbacks of using GDP per capita as an indicator of child well-being that is why a number of alternative methods were developed. Researchers agree that we still do not have effective measures to evaluate child wellbeing, this paper aims to collect some of the most important new approaches regarding this topic. The author also presents some of the territorial differences in the field of children’s welfare by using statistical data from the seven regions of Hungary