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Richardson, Brittany Paige; van der Linde, Jeannie; Pillay, Bhavani; Swanepoel, De Wet – Health Education Journal, 2021
Introduction: Inadequate caregiving conditions interfere with successful health and development outcomes. Access to appropriate information can result in improved health and development outcomes in children. Health promotion text messaging, a primary mHealth strategy, has been implemented in various countries to reach communities where the…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Access to Information, Access to Health Care
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Psaki, Stephanie R.; Mensch, Barbara S.; Chuang, Erica K.; Melnikas, Andrea J. – Population Council, 2019
Despite enormous progress in expanding school enrollment globally, improvements in health have not always followed, raising important questions: Does education, in fact, enable women, men and their families to be healthier? And if so, how? To fill this gap in knowledge, the GIRL Center conducted a systematic review of the evidence for the effects…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Role of Education, Educational Attainment, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Blanc, Cristina S. – 1992
This publication presents a discussion of the status of poor urban children world-wide and the design of a five-nation study of the condition of distressed urban children. Following an introduction, Section 2 describes the urban child project designed to study and advance the plight of urban children in developing nations. Section 3 outlines the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Child Labor, Children