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1. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 4, CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES IN AFRICA: DOES A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH SUFFICE?

Author

Nnamuchi, Obiajulu, Ortuanya, Simon U., and Ezike, Edwin O.

Subjects
CHILD health laws, HUMAN rights
Abstract

That the state of children's health in Africa is abysmal is incontrovertible. Proof, if there is need for one, is the perennial underperformance of the vast majority of countries in the region in key dimensions of children's health and wellbeing. Nonetheless, the point of interest in health policy literature is not on the underperformance per se but on the underlying causes and possible antidotes - a reason Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 (on reducing child mortality) holds special significance for countries in the region. This paper advances scholarship in this very critical area by projecting human rights as holding the key that could unlock the suffocating stranglehold ill-health irrepressibly wields over the lives of millions of children in Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014

2. Truby King's Women: Four Australian Case Studies.

Author

Smith, Philippa Mein

Subjects
MATERNAL & infant welfare, NURSES, INFANT care, CHILD health laws
Abstract

Infant welfare work by women supporters of the Truby King system for the feeding and care of babies included initiatives by nurses who conveyed his routines along the trade routes of Empire. After the First World War, Dr Truby King's appeal as an infant welfare authority was transnational, across the British world. This article analyses the work of four women with a nursing background who promoted the Truby King system of mothercraft in the south-eastern States of Australia in the 1920s and 1930s. It examines these nurse devotees' motives, initiatives, and degree of success in the context of constraints imposed by medical rivalries, paternalism, and State politics. The findings offer insights into the transfer of maternal and child health policies and practices in the British Empire, as well as into the nurses' lives and principles, and demonstrate that nurses and matrons effected transfers on the ground. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2019
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3. Playing Politics with Childhood Hunger.

Author

Schilling, Becky

Subjects
CHILD nutrition laws, CHILD health laws, POVERTY in the United States, AMERICAN politicians
Abstract

In this article, the author discusses the U.S. Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill that has been passed in the house in April 2016. Topics discussed include schools that have qualified the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), a provision from the U.S. Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) serve all students regardless of their poverty status; politics played by the congress members on child health; and views of Joe Brown, director of foodservices at Columbus City Schools, on the same.

Published
2016