Blogs Posts in Health category; 52 blog posts

Fuel poverty a risk to children's health, energy firms told

About 800,000 of Britain’s poorest families should qualify for a £120 discount on fuel bills through the Warm Homes Discount scheme. However, only 25,000 will actually benefit because of a lack of investment from the six leadi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Child Poverty and Deprivation in Africa (3-3)

Children account for a large percentage of the income-poor and the severely deprived worldwide. At least 600 million children under the age of 18 around the world are surviving on less than $1 a day; 40 per cent of these children live in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

End Poverty One Child at a Time - What You Can Do to Make a ...

A child dies every three seconds due to poverty. Why is it that the murder of one child makes headlines but the death of a child every three seconds is just a statistic? These 10 million children that die each year are a heinous crime [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Debt Cancellation - The Wrong Signal For Fighting Poverty

Defining poverty varies and depends from one place to another, from one time to another and from one year to another, from household to another... A poor person in my village, Kpala, owns land, has shelter, eats fresh food but do [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Ending Poverty Consciousness

Definition number 1 of "poverty" in the American Heritage Dictionary is: "The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts." It is further defined as "deficiency in amoun [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Motlanthe: Education way out of poverty

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said the most effective way of eradicating poverty was by encouraging young people to go to school and learn skills, SABC radio news reported on Saturday. Motlanthe was visiting Phillipstown near De Aar [...]

Posted On : Jun, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Tackling child poverty – it's time for a nation of aspiratio...

This week saw Courtney, an eight-year-old girl living on the Canterbury estate in Bradford on TV as part of the BBC's Poor Kids programme, looking at the issue of poverty from the perspective of a child. In previewing the programme, C [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty causes life-long health problems: Study

Poorer kids are often unhealthy kids, and unhealthy kids often stay that way their whole lives, according to a new study. Research from Montreal's McGill University shows that the lifelong health gap between the rich and poor is prett [...]

Posted On : Jun, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Tobacco is a health risk, stay away from it

On May 1989, the World Health Organisation passed a resolution calling for May 31 to be annually recognised as World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). Today, the world will mark this day amidst research findings that show that tobacco cultivation an [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Health care, poverty, key issues for NDP candidate

Poverty and health care are Lyn Edwards's top priorities going into the May 2 federal election. The NDP candidate lists recruiting doctors, job creation and affordable housing as some of the ways she'd go about bettering the live [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Half of S.C. children face poverty

Nearly half of the state's 1 million residents younger than 18 "lived in some officially measured degree of poverty" last year, according to a report issued Thursday. About half of all children qualified for Medicaid benefi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Fairtrade gold to help miners escape poverty

The world's first certified "Fairtrade" gold goes on sale in Britain on Monday, which campaigners say will boost the incomes and working conditions of impoverished gold miners worldwide. Garrard, jeweller to the royal [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Surviving Hitler and Stalin to Fight Poverty and Cancer

For Larisa Shchetinina, now 72, the decision to leave Ukraine — though not the act itself — came suddenly. In 1992, she went to Kiev to say goodbye to her brother, who was moving to Israel. In the center of the country’ [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Labour's child poverty proposals welcomed

The Child Poverty Action Group has welcomed some of the ideas in a report on early years and poverty published yesterday. The report by Labour MP Frank Field said the race to succeed in life was over for many children by the day they fir [...]