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Child Survival
of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy and childhood, definitions of personhood, and beliefs about the soul and its immortality. MOTHER LOVE AND CHILD DEATH Of all the many factors that endanger the lives of young children, by far the most difficult to examine with any degree of dispassionate objectivity is the quality of parenting. Historians and social scientists, no less than the public at large, are influenced by old cultural myths a...
WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival Strategy
The joint WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival Strategy offers a unified direction and a description of the actions necessary to successfully implement life-saving interventions. It can be used to guide countries and areas in the Region in their efforts to improve child survival. The Strategy focuses on children from birth to 5 years of age and advocates approaches that give every child the same chance for survival. This document includes key background information, the rationale for accelerated and sustained action for child survival, and a brief description of interventions included in the essential package for child survival. In addition, it includes action that will strengthen the essential package, a description of strategic approaches for child survival, a section about the diversity of countries and areas, and key points on monitoring and evaluation. It concludes with a brief description of the way forward.
The Politics of Children's Survival
The central concern of this pioneering study is the high rate of child mortality worldwide and the prospects for its reduction. Taking as his major focus socioeconomic factors and their effect on children's survival, George Kent asks not only what technical interventions might be undertaken within meager health budgets, but also why are those budgets so inadequate? He examines the social and political roots of child mortality around the world and finds that the problem arises from widespread powerlessness in the populations of less developed countries. Thus, he argues, remedies should center on strategies of empowerment, designed in such a way that their benefits persist long after the inter...
Child Survival
of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy and childhood, definitions of personhood, and beliefs about the soul and its immortality. MOTHER LOVE AND CHILD DEATH Of all the many factors that endanger the lives of young children, by far the most difficult to examine with any degree of dispassionate objectivity is the quality of parenting. Historians and social scientists, no less than the public at large, are influenced by old cultural myths a...
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The State of the World's Children 2008
The 2008 report examines the state of child survival and primary health care for children, with a strong emphasis on trends in child mortality.
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Child Survival
Based on papers presented at a workshop on children's health and mortality. Issued as a supplement to Population and development review.
Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries
Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries provides local health system managers with basic principles for rapid precise program monitoring and evaluation in difficult tropical conditions.
