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Are children's experiences of poverty and ill health best understood as a local or as a global issue?
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Are children's experiences of poverty and ill health best understood as a local or as a global issue? Statistics reveal that a quarter of all deaths in the world are of children less than five years of age, many of which are due to ill health. (UNICEF, 2001 Cited in Book 4, chapter 3 p 95) The sad fact is that improving conditions where children live would prevent many of these deaths as a considerable number of children's healthy development is still being affected, and an even larger number experience life significantly disadvantaged due to issues relating to poverty, which makes for grim reading. These childhood experiences became a concern in the latter part of the 20th century and international charities, organisations and legislations like the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, (UNCRC) for those countries who ratified to its principles were set up in response...
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