topic:"Social Environment" found 6 records - Provincial Hospitals Library Catalogue

Brighter futures : Canada's action plan for children

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Health and Welfare Canada. --Ottawa, ON: Health and Welfare Canada , 1992.

Call Number: WA 310 DC2 B94 1992

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: WA 310 DC2 B94 1992

Corporate Author: Health and Welfare Canada

Place of Publication: Ottawa, ON

Publisher: Health and Welfare Canada

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: 47 p.

ISBN: 662195744

Subjects (MeSH): Child Welfare; Social Environment; Canada

Notes: Issued also in French under title: Grandir ensemble : plan d'action canadien pour les enfants.

Format: Book

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Copies: 1

Loan Period: 2 weeks

A child's right to a healthy environment

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James Garbarino, Garry Sigman, editors. --New York: Springer , c2010.

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Other Authors: Garbarino, James; Sigman, Garry

Other Authors: Loyola University Chicago Center for the Human Rights of Children

Other Authors: Loyola University Symposium on the Human Rights of Children (2008 : Chicago Ill)

Responsibility: James Garbarino, Garry Sigman, editors

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2010

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 254 p. : ill.)

Series Vol.: v. 1

Series Title: Loyola University symposium on the human rights of children

ISBN: 9781441967916; 9781441967893 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Child Welfare; Human Rights; Social Environment

Contents: Part I. Perspectives on Healthy Environments for Children -- 1. “To Such as These, the Kingdom of Heaven Belongs”: Religious Faith as a Foundation for Children’s Rights -- 2. Preventing Childhood Malaria: Strategies That Work Today and Directions for the Future -- 3. A Case Study of a Partnership in Chicago to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning -- Part II. Why Is Protecting the Human Rights of Children so Difficult? -- 4. Spare the Rod: Why Are More American Children Victims and Perpetrators of Violence Than Those of Any Other Developed Country? -- 5. Promoting a Protective Environment for Children Affected by Disaster and War -- 6. When Rights and Needs Collide -- Part III. Human Rights as a Tool for Social Change -- 7. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Instrument for Creating a Healthy Environment for the Child -- 8. The Right to a Family Environment for Children of Prisoners -- 9. A Child’s Right to an Environment that Prevents Obesity: Ethical Considerations -- 10. Anchoring and Empowering Children: A Child’s Right to Participation Within a Healthy Environment -- Part IV. Cultural and Social Impediments to a Healthy Environment for Children -- 11. Child Slavery and the Global Economy: Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Problem -- 12. In Harm’s Way in America: The Burden of Gun Violence -- 13. The Right to a Healthy Social Environment: Protecting Children from Social Toxicity.

Format: e-Book

Publication Type: Congress

Location: Online

Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula : A Human Ecology Perspective

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Hugo Azcorra, Federico Dickinson, editors. --Cham: Springer , c2020.

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This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya Period. Human bodies express social relations, and we can read these relations by analyzing biological tissues or systems, and by measuring certain phenotypical traits at the population level. Departing from this theoretical premise, the contributors…

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Other Authors: Azcorra, Hugo; Dickinson, Federico

Responsibility: Hugo Azcorra, Federico Dickinson, editors

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2020

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 336 p.) : 48 illus., 25 illus. in color

ISBN: 9783030270018; 9783030270001 (Print ed.); 9783030270025 (Print ed.); 9783030270032 (Print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Ecology; Environment and Public Health; Social Environment

Other Subjects: Mexico

Specialty: Population Health; Sociology, Medical

Abstract: This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya Period. Human bodies express social relations, and we can read these relations by analyzing biological tissues or systems, and by measuring certain phenotypical traits at the population level. Departing from this theoretical premise, the contributors to this volume analyze the interactions between ecosystems, sociocultural systems and human biology in a specific geographic region to show how changes in sociocultural and natural environment affect the health of a population over time. This edited volume brings together contributions from a range of different scientific disciplines – such as biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, human biology, nutrition, epidemiology, ecotoxicology, political economy, sociology and ecology – that analyze the interactions between culture, environment and health in different domains of human life, such as: The political ecology of food, nutrition and health; Impacts of social and economic changes in children’s diet and women’s fertility; Biological consequences of social vulnerability in urban areas; Impacts of toxic contamination of natural resources on human health; Ecological and sociocultural determinants of infectious diseases. Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula: A Human Ecology Perspective will be of interest to researchers from the social, health and life sciences dedicated to the study of the interactions between natural environments, human biology, health and social issues, especially in fields such as biological and sociocultural anthropology, health promotion and environmental health. It will also be a useful tool to health professionals and public agents responsible for designing and applying public health policies in contexts of social vulnerability.

Contents: Introduction -- The thin broken line. History, society, and the environment on the Yucatan Peninsula -- Globalization and children’s diets: The case of Yucatan, Mexico -- Growth stunting and low height-for-age in the Yucatan Peninsula -- The urban Maya from Yucatan dealing with the biological burden of the past and a degenerative present -- A critical biocultural perspective on tourism and the nutrition transition in the Yucatan -- Effect of salaried work in cities and commercial agriculture on natural fertility in rural Maya women from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico -- Association between early developmental stress, as evidenced by linear enamel hypoplasias (LEHs), and body composition during adolescence in agricultural populations with different access to store foods and gendered activity patterns -- Hydration, lactation, and child health outcomes in Yucatec Maya -- Patterns of activity and somatic symptoms among urban and rural women at midlife in the state of Campeche, Mexico -- Environmental and cultural stressors in the coastal northern Maya lowlands in pre-Hispanic times -- History of health and life of pre-hispanic Maya through their skeletal remains -- Crossing the threshold of modern life. Comparing disease patterns between two documented urban cemetery series from the city of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico -- Health and wellbeing in the Yucatan Peninsula revisited with a human ecology perspective -- Hair mercury content in an adult population of Merida, Yucatan Mexico as a function of anthropometric measures and seafood consumption -- Tackling exposure to Chagas Disease in the Yucatan from a human ecology perspective -- Conclusions.