But these only went so far because even though it was agreed that child malnutrition was a disease of poverty, no consideration was given to the historical and structural factors that accounted for this poverty. Like other plantation economies in the Caribbean, Jamaica had long been reliant on ...
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On the eve of independence in 1962, malnutrition was the largest single cause of death in Jamaica for children under one. Although child malnutrition rates have rapidly declined since 1962, today Jamaica experiences a double burden of malnutrition: the c
(Ram); Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development, Yonsei University, Wonju, South Korea (Ranabhat); School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia (Renzaho); Department of Pediatrics, Mazandaran University of Medical ...
(LGBTQ +) groups, migrant populations and young people living with disabilities or in poverty. Knowledge about how young people of different ages, and their caregivers, access different types of support for their mental health is also limited in the reviewed studies. This may indicate that ...
While a range of familial and societal stressors including family illness, abuse, trauma, bereavement, discrimination and poverty were identified, a strong theme emerged in both qualitative and quantitative data that upbringing and poor parenting are considered to cause mental illnesses [33, 38, 46,...
Previous research has found that there are high rates of mental health problems among caregivers in rural China and that caregiver mental health may be a significant predictor of developmental delays among infants and toddlers in these rural areas. In this paper, we use data from a survey of 98...
Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2020 Supplement: Paths Diverge in Recovery from the Pandemic (Asian Development Bank, 2020); https://www.adb.org/publications/ado-supplement-december-2020 Laborde, D., Martin, W. & Vos, R. Impacts of COVID-19 on global poverty, food security, and diets: ...
ECCE services can be integrated successfully within a number of policy domains, as long as young children are an important focus of the ministry in charge. In situations of severe poverty, good reasons are present to continue a health/well being approach to children 0-3 years and their familie...
Twenty-eight studies were conducted in the United States, seven in Australia, five in Canada, five in Hong Kong or Mainland China, two in Singapore, four in the United Kingdom, two in Greece and one each in Finland, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Portugal, South Africa and Sweden. Sample ...