Global Health in Transition: A Synthesis Perspectives from International Organizations (1996) / Chapter Skim
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The State of the World's Children, 1994 and 1995
The State of the World's Children, 1994 and 1995
Pages 35-38
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It includes regional summaries of those statistics, basic indicators for less populous countries, and a variety of analytical graphics. It also assesses progress toward established program goals, including components of the Child Survival Initiative and the goals set at the 1990 World Summit for Children.
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• Improved health is a powerful weapon for attacking poverty, as judged in terms of the economic losses due to specific diseases, returns to investments in water supply, increases in productivity and decreases in lost labor time, greater returns to other forms of investment, decreased medical costs, long-term effects on population growth, or the profound connection between the mental and physical development of children and the social and economic development of their societies. • Education, particularly for females, means fewer and betterspaced births of offspring who are more likely to survive, be better nourished, and become educated, as well as greater overall capacity for ensuring better family health and managing the environment.
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1. Creation of an enabling economic environment through -- agreements on fair and stable commodity prices; -- more open access to markets for manufactured exports; -- forgiveness of significant proportions of debt in selected regions and cases; -- more investment in the health, nutrition, education, and employment of the poorest people; -- rapid progress toward at least primary education for all children, especially for girls; -- improvement of the lives of women in poor communities -- their health, education, and status; and -- making available family planning information and services to all who need them.
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However, it notes other problems: the extreme deprivation and exploitation of children and the abuse of children in war, in the workplace, on the street, and at home, which afflict millions of children everywhere. Even here, however, the report notes a few tentative signs of an emerging new ethic that might one day offer children protection from the perils of the adult world.
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