@article{ref1,
title="Surviving childhood in India and Ethiopia",
journal="Interdisciplinary science reviews",
year="2007",
author="Sargent, Michael G.",
volume="32",
number="1",
pages="11-26",
abstract="The precariousness of childhood in the developing world is most visible when the media spotlight falls on famine, natural disaster or civil war, but it casts a permanent shadow over family life in that world, as it did in Europe a hundred years ago. Premature death, life-threatening sickness, irreversible stunting of growth and the loss of a mother in childbirth are some of the most tangible evils of underdevelopment. Although poverty contributes to this dismal situation, many individual contingencies are avoidable to a substantial extent if people can be drawn into primary health-care systems that encourage them to exchange detrimental customs for better ideas of managing hygiene and parenthood.<p />",
language="",
issn="0308-0188",
doi="10.1179/030801807X163652",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/030801807X163652"
}