ISBN:
9781498520836
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1498520839
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 174 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Safe water, sanitation, and early childhood malnutrition in East Africa
DDC:
353.609676
Keywords:
Public health
;
Children Health and hygiene
;
Women Health and hygiene
;
Women Social conditions 21st century
;
Children Social conditions 21st century
;
Children Diseases
;
Nutritional aspects
;
Water quality
;
Sanitation
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kenia
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Tansania
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Uganda
;
Kind
;
Frau
;
Gesundheit
Abstract:
"Presenting a framework that considers the ways that neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children, authors explore the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda."--Publisher's summary
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction
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The lives of women and children in East Africa
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Structural and economic analysis of declines in water and sanitation in East Africa
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Public goods, citizenship rights : how lingering structural inequalities define social services and government policies
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Access to safe water, women's empowerment, and decentralization systems in Tanzania
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Gender as social structure and its potential impact on safe water and sanitation technologies in East Africa : an African feminist analysis
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Environmental contamination and early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
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Conclusion : paying serious attention to women's scholarship to influence policy in East Africa
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Appendix 1: River basin model and decentralization system ; Appendix 2: Population in the area under study in Tanzania's Pangani River basin ; Appendix 3: Safe Global Water and Sanitation Institute Summit program.
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