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The transition to democracy in South Africa brought real improvements in the opportunities open to many children and young people. Some constraints and pressures of the Apartheid Era have been mitigated or removed. In some respects, however, the lives of children and young people have not changed and, in some respects, they may have worsened. The extension of political rights to all adults has not meant an end to poverty among children and adolescents, personal security has declined, and AIDS has wreaked havoc. In this course scholars working on and with children and adolescents consider some of the major dimensions of the lives of young people in South Africa, examining the ways in which they have and have not changed and the roles that children and adolescents themselves play in shaping their lives.
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- Social Sciences
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University of Cape Town
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The South African Child Gauge is produced annually by the Children Institute University of Cape Town to monitor government and civil society progress towards realising the rights of children This issue focuses on child health. The South African Child Gauge is divided into three parts: PART ONE Children and law reform. Part one discusses recent legislative developments affecting child health In this issue there is commentary on the Children's Act the Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abuse Act provincial health legislation Tobacco Products Control Amendment Acts regulations to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and new regulations to the Social Assistance Act. PART TWO: Healthy children From survival to optimal development. Part two presents a series of 12 essays Essays one and two set the scene by examining children's rights to health and the status of child health in South Africa Then come three essays that look at key health challenges and how to address them HIV and TB malnutrition mental health and risk behaviour These are followed by four essays that examine how to strengthen the health care system's response to childhood illness and injury This includes defining a package of basic health care services managing resources and building capacity providing child and family-friendly services and strengthening community based programmes The next essay shows how the roots of childhood illness and injury often lie outside the health care system and calls for concerted action to address the social determinants of health Two further essays point the way forward In the first the Minister of Health describes his vision for child health in South Africa The second draws on the findings presented in the earlier essays to outline recommendations for a system and a society that support child health PART THREE Children Count the numbers Part three updates a set of key indicators on children's socioeconomic rights and provides commentary on the extent to which these rights have been realised The indicators are a special subset selected from the website www.childrencount.ci.org.za
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- Science and Technology
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- Post-secondary
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University of Cape Town
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This collection of papers focused on the theme 'Healthy children: From survival to optimal development' can be used for independent study/research or for integration into child development curriculum. The South African Child Gauge is produced annually by the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town to monitor government and civil society's progress towards realising the rights of children. This issue focuses on child health. The South African Child Gauge is divided into three parts: PART ONE: Children and law reform Part one discusses recent legislative developments affecting child health. In this issue there is commentary on the Children's Act, the Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abuse Act, provincial health legislation, Tobacco Products Control Amendment Acts, regulations to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and new regulations to the Social Assistance Act. PART TWO: Healthy children: From survival to optimal development Part two presents a series of 12 essays. Essays one and two set the scene by examining children's rights to health and the status of child health in South Africa. Then come three essays that look at key health challenges and how to address them: HIV and TB; malnutrition; mental health and risk behaviour. These are followed by four essays that examine how to strengthen the health care system's response to childhood illness and injury. This includes defining a package of basic health care services; managing resources and building capacity; providing child- and family-friendly services; and strengthening community-based pro-grammes. The next essay shows how the roots of childhood illness and injury often lie outside the health care system, and calls for concerted action to address the social determinants of health. Two further essays point the way forward. In the first, the Minister of Health describes his vision for child health in South Africa. The second draws on the findings presented in the earlier essays to outline recommendations for a system and a society that support child health. PART THREE: Children Count -- the numbers Part three updates a set of key indicators on children's socio-economic rights and provides commentary on the extent to which these rights have been realised.
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OER Africa
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