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The Child in Latin America: Health, Development, and Rights (Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development)

✍ Scribed by Ernest J. Bartell C.S.C. (editor), Alejandro O’Donnell (editor)


Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Leaves
412
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Cover
The Child in Latin America
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Opportunities and Challenges for the Well-Being of Children in the Development of Latin America: An Overview
PART I CHILD HEALTH IN LATIN AMERICA
A The Changing Face of Malnutrition
1 The Nutritional Status of Children in Latin America
2 Child Undernutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean: Trends, Reasons, and Lessons
3 Micronutrient Malnutrition: Overview of the Deficiencies in the Region of the Americas
4 Effect of Iron Deficiency Anemia on Cognitive Skills and Neuromaturation in Infancy and Childhood
5 Community Intervention Programs in Latin America
B Environmental Sanitation
6 Environmental Sanitation and Child Health: The Missing Link in Child Survival
7 Environmental Sanitation and Its Relation to Child Health
PART II RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN LATIN AMERICA
A Violence among Children and Youth
8 Homicide Mortality in Adolescents and Young People: A Challenge for the Region of the Americas
9 The Epidemic of Youth Violence in the Americas: A Public Health Approach
B Child Labor
10 Child Work and Education in Latin America
C Rights of Children and Penal Law
11 Adolescents and the Penal System: Proposals Based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child
12 State Response to Children and Adolescents in Trouble with the Law
13 From Minors to Citizens: Social Policies for Children within the Context of the Integral Protection Doctrine
14 Comments on β€œFrom Minors to Citizens”
D Children, Citizenship, and Democracy
15 The Child as Subject of Rights and as Participant in the Democratic Process
16 Children, Rights, and Democracy: A Commentary on Alessandro Baratta
E Children and Social Policy in Latin America: Successes, Failures, and Challenges
17 Child Survival and Development: Challenge for the New Millennium
18 Facing the New Millennium: Children and Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
19 The Rights of the Child: The Path toward a Model of Social Inclusion
Appendix
Contributors
Index


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