A focus on children’s public health issues, geography including the mountain women, and advocacy for health
A FOCUS ON CHILDREN’S PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES, GEOGRAPHY INCLUDING THE MOUNTAIN WOMEN, AND ADVOCACY FOR HEALTH
In this issue we carry a range of papers throwing light on the public health condition of children. From China (via Italy) comes an Editorial reviewing 25 years of the Chinese one child family policy, which identifies two major outcomes:
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the gross distortion in the birth ratio of boys to girls;
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the rapid demographic skewing towards an aging population. The policy implications are huge.
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The JECH Gallery features an obituary of Patxi Catalá, the founder of the Andalusian School of Public Health in 1985 and pioneer of the re-creation of public health in Spain after the Franco era; and in a vignette from El Salvador we hear about …
