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Children’s Poor Health and Hygiene
Web Article: “UNICEF Child Survival and Development”
http://www.unicef.org/childsurvival/index.html
Web Article: “Filling an Urgent Need: Improving Children’s Access to Dental Care in Medicaid and SCHIP”
Note: Please skim the above article.
Video: “U.N. Plans to Vaccinate 20m African Children in One Month”
http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/02/12/un-plans-to-vaccinate-20-million-african-children-in-one-month/4040/
This video clip can also be found on youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvSchGbLs0M
Video: “Where is the Outrage?”
http://youtu.be/vVra3VXjSk0
Note: You are not being asked to donate to this organization.
Poverty
Web Article: “Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty”
http://www.unicef.org/mdg/poverty.html
Web Article: “Poverty Poisons the Brain”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18krugman.html?em
Note: This article is written as an opinion piece.
Video: “Child Poverty in America”
http://www.linktv.org/video/3299
Malnutrition
Web Article: “Global Food Crisis”
http://www.worldvision.org/about-us/press-center/background-sheet
Video: “Food Crisis Ravages India’s Poorest Children”
Web Article: “Hunger a Growing Problem in America, USDA Reports”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111601598.html
Web Article: “Hunger and Poverty Statistics”
http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-facts/hunger-and-poverty-statistics.aspx
Optional Resources
Web Article: “State of the World’s Children Executive Summary”
http://www.unicef.org/sowc08/docs/sowc08_execsummary.pdf
Web Article: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www.unicef.org/crc/
Web Article: “Millennium Development Goals
http://www.unicef.org/mdg/
Assignment:Understanding Threats to Children’s Development from a Global Perspective
After you have watched the videos and read the articles focusing on poor health and hygiene, poverty, and malnutrition, respond to the following questions:
What have you learned about critical issues impacting children at the global level? Consider in your response how the issues of poor health and hygiene, poverty, and malnutrition impact children’s basic needs, and the implications for their health and well-being.
How do children in the United States fare in terms of the critical issues of poor health and hygiene, poverty, and malnutrition? Why is supporting each of these basic needs such a difficult challenge, both in the United States and around the world?
Why is understanding the impact of these issues, both in the United States and around the world, such an important goal for child development professionals?
Submit a summary of your thinking by articulating:
A general statement about how issues of poor health and hygiene, poverty, and malnutrition represent critical global challenges to young children’s healthy development and well-being, and how your understanding of these topics has expanded and/or deepened
How information supporting understanding diverse, global issues facing children is relevant to your role as a child development professional
Assignment length: 2 pages
