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Document Source: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
Year: 2014
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: analysis, cause, statistics
Objectives: This research aims to provide child malnutrition prevalence data from Haiti’s Milot Valley to inform the design and implementation of local health interventions. Study design: This cross-sectional study measured underweight, stunting, and wasting/ thinness using international growth standards. Methods: Anthropometric measurements (height/length and weight) were taken on a convenience sample of 358 children aged …
August 22, 2021
Document Source: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: abuse, cause, culture, statistics
AFTER 200 YEARS OF BEES, LET’S HAVE 200 years of honey.” So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government at the end of 2003 to celebrate the impending bicentennial of independence and freedom from slavery. But with no honey in sight, there wasn’t much to celebrate, as antigovernment violence coupled with a dismal economy …
2016 – Haiti’s Children Pay the Price of Poverty Read More »
Document Source: Rose-Marie Chierici
Year: 2016
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: abuse, analysis, cause, statistics
2003 Alyans Sante Borgne’s (ASB) conducted the irst week-long mobile hospital in Molas, a poor mountain community a 10-h walk from the main hospital in the town of Borgne in North Haiti. ASB is a partnership between Haiti Outreach—Pwoje Espwa (H.O.P.E.), a US-based NGO, and Haiti’s Ministry of Health. The paper relects on this irst …
Document Source: Deborah Levison and Anna Langer
Year: 2010
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: abuse, analysis, assessment, statistics
COUNTING CHILD domestic servants seems a commonplace task. In fact, it is both difficult and important. Child domestic servants are among the most vulnerable of child workers and the most invisible. They may be treated well and allowed to attend school, or they may be secluded in their employers’ homes, ill-treated, overworked, and unable to …
2010 – Counting Child Domestic Servants in Latin America Read More »
Document Source: Canadian Medical Association
Year: 2010
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: abuse, analysis, assessment, earthquake, statistics
Before the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, chronic poverty, lack of infrastructure and poor performance on key health indicators had long threatened the well-being of Haiti’s children. Though Haiti ratified the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1994,1 this nation has the highest mortality rates among infants, children less …
2010 – Chronic aftershocks of an earthquake on the well-being of children in Haiti Read More »
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