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Missing the mark?;women and the millennium development goals in afri.
In the year 2000, United Nations world leaders set out eight targets, the UN Millennium Development Goals, for achieving improved standards of living at the micro level in poorer nations around the globe, by the year 2015. The papers in this collection present fine-detailed ethnographic studies of c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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BRADFORD :
DEMETER Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cosmopolitan Obstetrics and Women's Lived Realities; 1. Integrating Western Medicine and Local Practice: Contributions of a Mission-Based Maternity Clinic to Maternal and Child Health in the Lower Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea; 2. Second Chance: Caring for Infected Mothers and Their Children in Mendi, Papua New Guinea; 3. Faith, Hope, and Charity: Barriers to Condom Use among Women in Southern Malawi
- 4. Shortages, Priorities, and Maternal Health: Muddled Kastom and the Changing Status of Women in Malaita, Solomon Islands5. Maternal Health (In)Equity in Mursi (Mun), Southern Ethiopia: Behind the Hype of "Harmful Cultural Practices"; 6. Maternal Health Services Miss the Mark: An Ethnographic Case Study in Rural Ghana; 7. Giving Birth in Douala, Cameroon: A Real Challenge; 8. Throwing the Mother Out with the Bathwater: Vanuatu's Breastfeeding Initiative in Theory and Practice; 9. Reproductive Anomalies in the Marshall Islands