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    Hypertension in the Children: A Review

    2011
    Hypertension in the Children is increasingly being recognized as an emerging critical healthcare problem, because of its increasing prevalence in recent years and also of its significant impact on the health and well-being of children and adolescents and tracking into adult life.1 Pediatric hypertension has unique features that differentiate it from hypertension in adults.
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    Children’s experiences and perceptions of poverty in Ethiopia

    Young Lives, 2012
    Children can be more than just victims of poverty; they can be agents of its alleviation. This paper presents Ethiopian children’s and young people’s perceptions of poverty based on their own experiences.
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    Chronic poverty amid growth: insights from long-term poverty trajectories

    Young Lives, 2012
    In recent years there has been growing interest in researching the dynamics of poverty, including the poverty mobility of households and communities. This paper is a part of a longitudinal study that seeks to improve understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty; the focus in this paper is tribal households not conforming to the general trend of upward mobility.
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    Is school education breaking the cycle of poverty for children?: factors shaping education inequalities in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam

    Young Lives, 2012
    Millions of poor children and families are investing scarce resources in going to school, in the hope that it will lead to a better life. This paper looks at children’s unequal trajectories from early childhood through to the time they leave school, examining how various factors are shaping their educational opportunities and achievement.
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    An Update of The Neglected Crisis of Undernutrition: Evidence for Action | Human Development Resource Centre

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2012
    Reviews new research on the causes, consequences and potential actions to reduce maternal and child undernutrition undertaken since the original publication in 2009. This paper is informed by targeted searches of electronic journals and online databases (ScienceDirect, PubMed, the Cochrane library, Oxford journals, The Lancet, the BMJ and Cambridge journals).
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    Social connection of street girls in the context of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
    This year 2012, the theme of IWD is “CONNECTING GIRLS, INSPIRING FUTURES”. Following this theme, this paper is going to study about a deprived but major segment of girls who are street girls and their social connection in Dhaka city, Bangladesh.In Bangladesh, much progress has been made to protect and promote adolescent girls and girl children's rights in recent times.
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    Surviving Pattern of Women and Children Migrants in Urban Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
    Migration is a relevant phenomenon with important implications at three different levels: local, regional and international. On the wider level, migration is tightly related with globalization and with the workflow of human resources towards the host countries; on a local level, rural to urban migration is one of the most important aspects of the economy of the state.
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    Impact of climate change on children’s health in Limpopo province, South Africa

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2012
    This paper examines the impact of climate change on children’s health in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Over 20 years of data were collected to analyse climatic conditions in the province. The study employs regression analysis to examine the relationships between climatic parameters and incidence of diseases, and to predict distribution of diseases by 2050.
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    Children’s action for disaster risk reduction: views from children in Asia

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
    This report indicates that Asian children and youth have been involved in hazard mapping, raising awareness through radio and games, as well as influencing other children, their teachers, parents and communities on how to reduce the effects of disasters.
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    Climate extremes and child rights in South Asia: a neglected priority

    Overseas Development Institute, 2012
    The links between climate change and disasters in South Asia, such as flooding in Pakistan or cyclones in Bangladesh, are increasingly evident. However, there is little recognition of the potentially life-long impact of climate change and related disasters on the wellbeing of the region’s children.

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