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Asunto: [EQ] Reducing the Impact of Poverty on Health and Human Development: Scientific Approaches
Reducing the Impact of Poverty on Health and Human Development: Scientific Approaches
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Volume 1136, June 2008
Website: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/nyas/1136/1
Preface Full Text HTML
Stephen G. Kaler and Owen M. Rennert
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health,
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..In summarizing the general condition of poverty, one observer concisely described it as "a form of exile, of being cut off from the larger society."1 Efforts to define poverty more specifically perhaps risk incompleteness, since the causes underlying human destitution are so diverse and interrelated. This volume is an attempt to collate major dimensions of poverty and their impact on human development. In conjunction with the Council of Science Editors Global Theme Issue,2 we recruited established and emerging experts within nine topical areas, illness and disease, maternal health, health disparities, health care services, nutrition, education, housing, social and economic determinants, and engineering and technology. We asked them to provide their scientific perspectives on the causes and solutions relevant to human poverty. Twenty-five
This collection focuses on the United States, as an example of a developed country in which poverty disrupts many lives,1 and provides an international context as well, through studies of developing countries in which the scale and impact of poverty are often more graphic and apparent. Thus,
The opening section is devoted to diseases of poverty, including chronic as well as acute infectious disorders. While not exhaustive in scopemeasles, lower respiratory infections, and diarrheal illnesses are covered only by review of recent literaturethe connections between neglected diseases and suboptimal development are abundantly evident. One worker remarked with regard to his disease of interest, "It's tied in with grinding poverty; where you find it maps almost perfectly with the poorest of the poor."3
Many whose contributions are in Part I are active participants and leaders in efforts to directly reduce the human toll of these conditions. Their cautious hopefulness in the face of difficult odds indicates the progress their work is engendering. In Part II, maternal health is specifically addressed, and the critical need for support of mothers in avoiding the cycle of poverty is delineated. Indeed, this theme recurs throughout many other sections of this book. In Part III, health disparities in
While these nine sections provide a framework for the book, the boundaries between them are admittedly artificial. The answer to the question of why someone is poor will vary among individuals but invariably involves one or more of the issues addressed here.
One author who supports preferential options for the poor has written, "Unless the poor are accorded some right to health care, water, food, and education, their lives will inevitably be short, desperate and unfree."4 Poverty touches numerous aspects of human life simultaneously, and concerted efforts must be sustained in multiple arenas to secure meaningful gains. That is truly the message of this volume
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Table of Contents
Part I. Diseases of Poverty
S. Keshavjee, I.Y. Gelmanova, A.D. Pasechnikov, S.P. Mishustin, Y.G. Andreev, A. Yedilbayev, J.J. Furin, J.S. Mukherjee, M.L. Rich, E.A. Nardell, P.E. Farmer, J.Y. Kim, and S.S. Shin pages 111 Abstract | Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (154 KB)
J.J. Furin, H.L. Behforouz, S.S. Shin, J.S. Mukherjee, J. Bayona, P.E. Farmer, J.Y. Kim, and S. Keshavjee
pages 1220 Abstract
pages 2127 Abstract
Stephen G. Kaler pages 2831 Abstract
Peter Hotez pages 3844 Abstract
Donald R. Hopkins, Frank O. Richards, Jr., Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, Paul Emerson, and P. Craig Withers, Jr.
pages 4552 Abstract
Thomas Streit and Jack Guy Lafontant pages 5363 Abstract
Steven K. Ault pages 6469 Abstract
Rachel Nugent pages 7079 Abstract
Part II. Maternal Health and Poverty
N. Tanya Nagahawatte and Robert L. Goldenberg pages 8085 Abstract
Linda S. Beeber, Krista M. Perreira, and Todd Schwartz pages 86100 Abstract
Suneeta Krishnan, Megan S. Dunbar, Alexandra M. Minnis, Carol A. Medlin, Caitlin E. Gerdts, and Nancy S. Padian
pages 101110 Abstract
Part III. Health Disparities and Poverty
pages 111125 Abstract
Michelle Sarche and Paul Spicer pages 126136 Abstract
Part IV. Health Care Services and Human Development
Alexandra E. Shields, Mary McGinn-Shapiro, and Paul Fronstin pages 137148 Abstract | References | Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (331 KB) |
Catherine Hoffman and Julia Paradise pages 149160 Abstract
pages 161171 Abstract
Ezra Susser, David St. Clair, and Lin He
pages 185192 Abstract | Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (193 KB)
John T. Cook and Deborah A. Frank pages 193209 Abstract
Joseph R. Sharkey pages 210217 Abstract
Bashir Jama and Gonzalo Pizarro pages 218232 Abstract
Part VI. Education and Human Development
pages 243256 Abstract | Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (255 KB)
Jens Ludwig and Deborah A. Phillips pages 257268 Abstract | Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (153 KB)
Nicholas Burnett pages 269275 Abstract
Part VII. Housing and Human Development
Virginia A. Rauh, Philip J. Landrigan, and Luz Claudio pages 276288 Abstract
Rebecca L. Clark and Rosalind Berkowitz King pages 289297 Abstract | Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (163 KB)
Shaaban A. Sheuya pages 298306 Abstract
Part VIII. Social and Economic Determinants of Human Development
James J. Heckman pages 307323 Abstract | Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (255 KB)
Eric Dearing pages 324332 Abstract
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo pages 333341 Abstract
The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition. Reforms and Impacts on Income Inequality
Part IX. Engineering and Technological Determinants of Human Development
Daniel M. Kammen and Charles Kirubi pages 348357 Abstract
Josefina Coloma and Eva Harris pages 358368 Abstract
Hodeba D. Mignouna, Mathew M. Abang, Gospel Omanya, Francis Nang'ayo, Mpoko Bokanga, Richard Boadi, Nancy Muchiri, and Eugene Terry
pages 369376 Abstract
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