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Child health in the Third World
Author(s) -
Biddulph John
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb137704.x
Subject(s) - cripple , third world , summit , economic growth , malnutrition , world war ii , first world , medicine , child mortality , developing country , development economics , political science , geography , nursing , economics , physical geography , law
Malnutrition, immunisable illness and diarrhoeal diseases are the main causes of morbidity and mortality in Third World children. War and other disasters, rapid social change and AIDS add to these problems, and the debts of Third World countries cripple their efforts to deal with them. The World Summit for Children formulated an ambitious set of goals for the world's children by the year 2000 and there are signs that improvements in basic child health services can be achieved in this decade.