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Child in Latin America: Health, Development, and Rights (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Paperback))

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Description for Child in Latin America: Health, Development, and Rights (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Paperback)) Paperback. This work brings together contributors from the US, Latin America and organizations such as UNICEF, to consider the physical, educational, social legal and economic status and progress of children throughout Latin America, focusing especially on health and rights issues. Editor(s): O'Donnell, Alejandro. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JKSB1; JKSN; LBBR; MJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.

Although most Latin American countries are considered middle-income nations, their child health and well-being statistics overall compare poorly with those of the United States. This volume, representing the fifth part of Project Latin America 2000 from the Helen Kellogg Institute, brings together contributors from the U.S., Latin America, and organizations such as UNICEF to consider the physical, educational, social, legal, and economic status and progress of children throughout Latin America, focusing especially on health and rights issues.

In chapters concerning health, experts in biology and medicine address such topics as trends in malnutrition and undernutrition, iron deficiency, inadequate sanitation, and ... Read more

These contributors show that as long as children in Latin America remain victimized by poverty, malnutrition, injustice, and violations of human rights, the many challenges of development must be addressed in ways that will protect children as well as support growing economies. They bring into focus the interdependence of all aspects of change, which must be acknowledged if children are to be both rightful beneficiaries and effective participants in the continuing development of Latin America.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268022587
SKU
V9780268022587
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About Ernest J. Bartell (Ed.)
Ernest J. Bartell, C.S.C., is Professor of Economics and former Executive Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Alejandro O'Donnell is Director of the Center for Studies on Infant Nutrition and Professor of Nutrition at the School of Medicine of the University of Salvador in Buenos Aires.

Reviews for Child in Latin America: Health, Development, and Rights (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Paperback))
“This volume … argues convincingly for the need to focus on children as subjects in the Latin American development process and to do so through a multidisciplinary lens. Globalists and neo-liberal economists take note: this balanced and well-researched volume should be on your list of required reading.” —Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies “The Child in Latin America ... Read more

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