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  How poverty separates parents from children: a challenge to human rights

  ATD Fourth World, 2004

  This paper examines the effects of poverty on families, particularly on children. Looking specifically at case studies in Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Haiti, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines, this paper examines the way that children and families experience poverty, the way that current discourse frames this issue, and comes up with several lessons learnt on the topic.
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  Child survival 4: Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality: more of the same is not enough

  The Lancet, 2003

  Gaps in child mortality between rich and poor countries are unacceptably wide and in some areas are becoming wider, as are the gaps between wealthy and poor children within most countries. They exist despite the availability of an impressive array of effective interventions and initiatives.
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  Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease: Part 1: determinants operating at individual and household level

  The Lancet, 2004

  This review assesses the various factors that affect vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS infection and disease at the individual and household levels. Produced by The Lancet, it examines in particular the influence that age, sex, and genetics have on the biological response to the three diseases and looks at what effect the three illnesses have on each other.
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  Tamil Nadu’s midday meal scheme where assumed benefits score over hard data

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper examines Tamil Nadu's noon nutritious meal scheme, India's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered.
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  Child health in rural Colombia: determinants and policy interventions

  2003

  This paper examines the determinants of child health in a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities. The authors want to understand how education interacts with other factors and policies in explaining child health.
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  Role of mothers in alleviating child malnutrition: evidence from Sri Lanka

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2003

  This paper begins with the assertion that having a productive workforce depends first on having healthy children, who will grow into workers. The authors argue that Sri Lanka faces a serious problem of malnourished children, which will have knock-on effects for Sri Lanka's growth.
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  Health infrastructure and child health in rural Peru

  2004

  This paper examines the effect of expanding health infrastructure on child nutrition in rural Peru.
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  Child health, poverty and the role of social policies in Nicaragua and the western regions of Honduras

  2004

  This paper looks at government health programmes in Nicaragua and Honduras in an attempt to understand the factors determining child health.This paper examines:private and public determinants of child healthhow public and private determinants interact and whether interactions suggest gross substitution or complementaritieshow the influence of the determinants of child health var
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  Child malnutrition, social development and health services in the Andean region: second progress report

  Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 2004

  The authors suggest that child malnutrition severely jeopardises, reduces or impairs prospects for productive social participation in adulthood. The authors propose that it is a major hindrance to human development (defined as a process of enhancing human capabilities).
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  Paying attention to gender and poverty in health research: content and process issues

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization highlights health inequities both between and within countries, and how this is reflected in research, focusing on poverty and gender. The authors argue that there has been little research into the social causes of ill-health among groups, or factors affecting health inequity that are beyond the control of the individual.

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