Children Living in Squalor: Shelter, Water and Sanitation Deprivations in Developing Countries
Children Living in Squalor: Shelter, Water and Sanitation Deprivations in Developing Countries
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生活在肮脏环境中的儿童：发展中国家的住房、水和卫生设施匮乏
DOI：
10.1353/cye.2009.0010
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发表时间：
2009
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通讯作者：
D. Gordon
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作者：
S. Nandy;D. Gordon
摘要：发展中国家数以亿计的儿童在肮脏的条件下成长，但针对儿童的反贫困政策往往侧重于人力资本干预，例如通过学校营养/喂养计划改善学校教育、医疗保健和营养。主要关注的似乎是儿童作为未来的公民，他们需要人力资本干预，以确保他们长大后成为生产性工人。然而，儿童不是未来的公民，他们是现有的公民，拥有独立于与他们一起生活的成年人并与之平等的人权。教育和健康领域当然需要人力资本干预，但儿童对更好生活条件的需求同样重要或更重要。肮脏的生活条件可能会杀死幼儿，并使年长的孩子生病和痛苦。更好的医疗保健可以治疗症状，但不能治疗造成这种健康状况不佳的原因。
Abstract:Hundreds of millions of children in developing countries are growing up in squalid conditions, yet anti-poverty policies targeted at children tend to focus upon human capital interventions such as improved schooling, healthcare and nutrition through school nutrition/feeding programs. The primary concern seems to be with children as future citizens who need human capital interventions in order to ensure they will be productive workers when they grow up. However, children are not future citizens, they are current citizens with human rights that are independent of and equal to those of the adults with whom they live. There is certainly a need for human capital interventions in education and health, but children's needs for better living conditions are equally or more important. Squalid living conditions can kill young children and make older children sick and miserable. Better health care can treat the symptoms but not the causes of this ill health.