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Direct linkMuir, Kristy; Goldblatt, Beth – Disability & Society, 2011
United Nation's conventions exist to help facilitate and protect vulnerable people's human rights: including people with disabilities (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006) and children (Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989). However, for some families where a family member has a disability, there may be inherent…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Disabilities, International Law, Treaties
Download full textBalog, Joseph E. – American Journal of Health Education, 2005
Many health educators view health as a subjective, comprehensive and multidimensional construct, such as the WHO concept that defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This paper, through a philosophical analysis, demonstrates that health is not…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Health Education, Educational Philosophy, Well Being
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1988
Based on the findings of a two month visit to Argentina by a World Bank Mission in November/December of 1988, this report summarizes current economic, education, and social policies in Argentina. The four major areas targeted are the social sectors, education, health care, and housing. The analysis identifies critical problems in the organization…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Kaul, Chandrika, Ed.; Tomaselli-Moschovitis, Valerie, Ed. – 1999
This statistical handbook is a user-friendly, up-to-date resource, and provides a thorough examination of the causes, effects, and ramifications of poverty throughout the developing world. The handbook contains more than 400 tables, graphs, and charts. In addition, it includes two special sections which contain information not consistently…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Fairfield Univ., CT. – 1973
The New Rural Society Concept, which urges establishment of a more balanced rural-urban population distribution in response to the interdependent rural-urban energy crisis, is explicated in this report on a model project initiated in 1972 in 10 northeastern Connecticut townships. The following are cited as major project objectives: (1) to obtain…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Business, Community Services, Education
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1995
This book examines what countries and international organizations can do to meet the great educational challenges they face. Higher living standards, better health, increased productivity, improved well-being for women and their families, and good government all depend on widespread education. The book is divided into three parts with 12 chapters.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational Development
