‘Adolescent Pregnancy’ 1: Social problem, public health concern, or neither
- Authors: Macleod, Catriona I , Feltham-King, Tracey
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434031 , vital:73027 , ISBN 9781351035620 , https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351035620-17/adolescent-pregnancy-1-catriona-ida-macleod-tracey-feltham-king
- Description: In this chapter we outline three major approaches to adolescent pregnancy. The first is the ‘social problem’ approach, in which adolescent pregnancy is viewed as, for the most part, deleterious for the young woman, her offspring, and society. This position fuels public outrage when the numbers of pregnant adolescents (especially when they are school pupils) are revealed in newspapers. The second is a public health response, which is well established and which has much institutional kudos. Here the neutral language of population-wide health is used to underpin preventive efforts in relation to adolescent pregnancy. In the third approach, authors point to the problems underlying both of these positions, arguing that arbitrarily separating younger pregnant women from older pregnant women is premised on particular power relations.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Biodiversity and nutrition
- Authors: Hunter, D , Burlingame, B , Remans, Roseline , Borelli, Teresa , Cogill, Bruce , Coradin, Lidio , Golden, C D , Jamnadass, Ramni H , Kehlenbeck, K , Kennedy, G , Kuhnlein, H V , McMullin, S , Myers, S , Silva, A J R , Saha, M , Scheerer, L , Shackleton, Charlie M , Neves Soares Oliviera, C , Termote, Celine , Teofili, C , Thilsted, Shakuntala H , Valenti, R
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434014 , vital:73026 , ISBN 978 92 4 150853 7 , https://hdl.handle.net/10568/67423
- Description: Malnutrition remains one of the greatest global health challenges we face and women and children are its most visible and vulnerable victims. Agricultural production is theoretically able to feed the world’s population in terms of calories (FAOSTAT, 2014), yet it is estimated that half the world’s population still suffers from one or more forms of malnutrition. In all its forms, malnutrition is closely linked to disease – as both a cause and effect – and it is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease (WHO 2012a).
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- Date Issued: 2015