Impact of the Economic Crisis on Children: Conference Report
This document outlines the discussions and recommendations of the "Impact of the Economic Crisis on Children in East Asia and the Pacific Islands" conference, convened by UNICEF. The conference dealt... read more Posted on 11-18-2009
Urban Poverty and Health in Developing Countries
This publication from the Population Reference Bureau, provides a sketch of urban health in developing countries, documenting the intra-urban differences in health for a number of countries and showing how... read more Posted on 11-18-2009
Expanding the Role of Networks of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda
This report outlines the background, achievements and lessons learned during the start up, implementation and close out of the Alliance’s three-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project, Expanding... read more Posted on 11-18-2009
Health in Bangladesh
Ill-health is a serious challenge that many households have to face, with specific impact on vulnerable groups such as women and children. This short paper from the Institute of Development Studies provides... read more Posted on 11-18-2009
Natural Disaster Preparedness and Education for Sustainable Development
This publication provides is a resource detailing the development of culturally appropriate and locally relevant educational material for natural disaster preparedness that targets key stakeholder groups and integrates Education for... read more Posted on 11-18-2009
Gary Evans: Linking Child Poverty and Mental Health
Evans, Gary W. (2004). The Environment of Childhood Poverty. American Psychologist (59), 77-92.
Abstract: Poor children often face widespread environmental inequities. Compared with their economically advantaged counterparts, they are exposed to... read more Posted on 06-12-2009
Child Health: Growing Issue in the US
One usually thinks of child rights and health problems as being rampant in many developing countries; increasingly, however, the impact and visibility is emerging in developed countries such as the... read more Posted on 05-27-2009
Child Health and Wellbeing Health Equity for children Could Help Save Millions of Lives Worldwide.
According to the Global Health Council, "Over the last 30 years, the global community has used effective and targeted methods to save the lives of millions of children. Despite... read more
Child Rights and Child Poverty: Can the International Framework of Children's Rights Be Used to Improve Child Survival Rates?
by Simon Pemberton, David Gordon, Shailen Nandy, Christina Pantazis, and Peter Townsend Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040307
This paper explains how the international framework of human rights can be better used to... read more
Children, Health and the Environment
Children face innumerable risks to their health and wellbeing, and these are directly linked the environments they live in. The physical or built environments (or lack there of) as well as environmental pollution affect the deveopment and wellbeing... read more
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