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Breaking the cycles...
Breaking the cycles of poverty : Strategies, achievements, and lessons learned in Los Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua, 1990-2014
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- Zelaya Blandon, Elmer (författare)
- Asociación para el Desarrollo Económico y Sostenible de El Espino (APRODESE) , Chinandega , Nicaragua; UNAN-León , León , Nicaragua,Asociac Desarrollo Econ & Sostenible El Espino AP, Chinandega, Nicaragua.;UNAN Leon, Leon, Nicaragua.
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- Källestål, Carina, 1954- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH),internationell barnhälsa och nutrition,Department of Women's and Children's Health , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden
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- Pena, Rodolfo (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa,Pan Amer Hlth Org, San Salvador, El Salvador.,Department of Women's and Children's Health , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden; Pan American Health Organization , San Salvador , El Salvador
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- Pérez, Wilton, 1979- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH),Department of Women's and Children's Health , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden
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- Berglund, Staffan (författare)
- Malmö högskola,Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS),Malmo Univ, Fac Hlth & Soc, Malmo, Sweden.
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- Contreras, Mariela, 1979- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH),Department of Women's and Children's Health , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden
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- Persson, Lars-Åke, 1947- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH),London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Dept Infect Dis Epidemiol, London, England.,internationell barnhälsa och nutrition,Department of Women's and Children's Health , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology , London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , London , UK
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Asociación para el Desarrollo Económico y Sostenible de El Espino (APRODESE) , Chinandega , Nicaragua; UNAN-León , León , Nicaragua Asociac Desarrollo Econ & Sostenible El Espino AP, Chinandega, Nicaragua;UNAN Leon, Leon, Nicaragua. (creator_code:org_t)
- 2017-01-31
- 2017
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Global Health Action. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1654-9716 .- 1654-9880. ; 10:1
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Abstract
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- Background: In a post-war frontier area in north-western Nicaragua that was severely hit by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, local stakeholders embarked on and facilitated multi-dimensional development initiatives to break the cycles of poverty. Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the process of priority-setting, and the strategies, guiding principles, activities, achievements, and lessons learned in these local development efforts from 1990 to 2014 in the Cuatro Santos area, Nicaragua. Methods: Data were derived from project records and a Health and Demographic Surveillance System that was initiated in 2004. The area had 25,893 inhabitants living in 5,966 households in 2014. Results: A participatory process with local stakeholders and community representatives resulted in a long-term strategic plan. Guiding principles were local ownership, political reconciliation, consensus decision-making, social and gender equity, an environmental and public health perspective, and sustainability. Local data were used in workshops with communities to re-prioritise and formulate new goals. The interventions included water and sanitation, house construction, microcredits, environmental protection, school breakfasts, technical training, university scholarships, home gardening, breastfeeding promotion, and maternity waiting homes. During the last decade, the proportion of individuals living in poverty was reduced from 79 to 47%. Primary school enrolment increased from 70 to 98% after the start of the school breakfast program. Under-five mortality was around 50 per 1,000 live births in 1990 and again peaked after Hurricane Mitch and was approaching 20 per 1,000 in 2014. Several of the interventions have been scaled up as national programs. Conclusions: The lessons learned from the Cuatro Santos initiative underline the importance of a bottom- up approach and local ownership of the development process, the value of local data for monitoring and evaluation, and the need for multi-dimensional local interventions to break the cycles of poverty and gain better health and welfare.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Poverty alleviation
- community participation
- microcredits
- education
- water and sanitation
- scale-up
- under-five mortality
- Health and Demographic Surveillance
- System
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