Child Well-Being in Latin America: contributions to child indicators research

Social distancing and isolation measures in response to COVID-19 have confined individuals to their homes and produced unexpected side-effects and secondary risks. In Latin America, the measures taken by individual governments to mitigate these new daily and experiential risks have varied significantly as have the responses to social isolation in each country. Given these new social circumstances, the purpose of this article is to investigate, from the sociological approach of risk-taking, the relationship between confinement, secondary risks and social inequality. The author argues that secondary risks, despite their broad scope, are deeply structured by social inequalities in contemporary societies, especially in developing countries. To corroborate this hypothesis, a quantitative comparative analysis is performed for the Argentine case. Using data from a web-survey and correspondence analysis (CA), there are three major findings: (1) there are some widespread experiences similarly distributed across all social strata, especially those related to emotional and subjective matters; (2) other risks follow socio-structural inequalities, especially those corresponding to material and cultural aspects of consumption; (3) for specific vulnerable groups, compulsory confinement causes great dilemmas of decision-making between health and well-being.

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Another Brick on the Wall: On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being

10.18235/0003082 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rosangela Bando ◽

Sebastián Galiani ◽

Paul Gertler

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Latin America ◽

External Validity ◽

Well Being ◽

Public Expenditures ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Pension Schemes ◽

Standard Deviations

Public expenditures on non-contributory pensions are equivalent to at least 1 percent of GDP in several countries in Latin America and is expected to increase. We explore the effect of non-contributory pensions on the well-being of the beneficiary population by studying the "Pensiones Alimentarias" program established by law in Paraguay, which targets older adults living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved subjective well-being in 0.48 standard deviations. These effects are consistent with the findings of Bando, Galiani and Gertler (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico. Thus, we conclude that the effects of non-contributory pensions on well-being in Paraguay are comparable to those found for Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity.

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Advancing environmental public health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública ◽

10.26633/rpsp.2021.118 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Marcelo Korc ◽

Fred Hauchman

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Latin America ◽

Health Sector ◽

Well Being ◽

Leadership Role ◽

The Public ◽

Environmental Public Health ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Health And Well Being

This paper highlights the important leadership role of the public health sector, working with other governmental sectors and nongovernmental entities, to advance environmental public health in Latin America and the Caribbean toward the achievement of 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 3: Health and Well-Being. The most pressing current and future environmental public health threats are discussed, followed by a brief review of major historical and current international and regional efforts to address these concerns. The paper concludes with a discussion of three major components of a regional environmental public health agenda that responsible parties can undertake to make significant progress toward ensuring the health and well-being of all people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Features of Rural Communities in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa That Influence Well-Being of Older Persons

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.1622 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 420-421

Author(s):

Andrew Banda ◽

Norah Keating ◽

Jaco Hoffman ◽

Jose Parodi ◽

Nereide Curreri

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Latin America ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Older People ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Older Persons ◽

Subjective Wellbeing ◽

Well Being ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Sub Saharan

Abstract In their recent volume, Critical Rural Gerontology, Skinner et al (2021) challenge us to set aside unidimensional notions of rural communities as bypassed vs very supportive; and to identify the elements of rurality that empower or exclude older people and how these differ across cultures and settings. Covid-19 has highlighted the need for safe and inclusive communities. Given that LMIC will be home to the majority of older adults (Gonzales et al. 2015), we undertook a scoping review of features of rural communities that influence wellbeing of older people in countries across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The review included literature in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, using search engines MEDLINE, CINAHL Complete, PsycInfo, SocINDEX, SciELO, AJOL (Africa Journals Online), LILACS, Redalyc, LatinIndex and Clacso. Findings illustrate diversity in how community features including remoteness, infrastructure and belonging influence material, social and subjective wellbeing of older residents.

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SABE - Survey on Health, Well-Being, and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000

ICPSR Data Holdings ◽

10.3886/icpsr03546.v1 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Martha Pelaez ◽

Alberto Palloni ◽

Cecilia Albala ◽

Juan Carlos Alfonso ◽

Roberto Ham-Chande ◽

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Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Well Being ◽

The Caribbean

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The Rights and Well-being of Children in Latin America

The Youngest Citizens ◽

10.4324/9781315167824-1 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Amy Risley

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Well Being

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Internationalization, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Poverty Alleviation

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-6192-7.ch067 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1276-1298 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

José Satsumi López-Morales ◽

Isabel Ortega-Ridaura

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Job Creation ◽

Well Being ◽

The People ◽

Corporate Social

The aim of this chapter is to describe how the MNCs can contribute to alleviate poverty and improve the well-being of the workers and communities, focused in two issues: job creation and CSR practices. For this purpose, the authors analyzed the case of the Mexican MNC FEMSA in Latin America. The results show that FEMSA plays an important role in job creation, with around 250,000 direct jobs in 2015 being created with Mexico and Brazil the most benefitiated with around the 84% of the jobs. In the case of CSR, 40 programs were identified under three main headings: “our people”, “our community” and “our planet”. Most of the programs are focused in “our community” (25) and the major receiver is Mexico with the 31 programs, the results of these programs show some benefits in the level of life and well-being of the people that has used these.

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Vaccines, fertility, and power: the political ecology of indigenous health and well-being in lowland Latin America

Ecologies and Politics of Health ◽

10.4324/9780203115527-18 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 161-180

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Political Ecology ◽

Indigenous Health ◽

Well Being ◽

The Political ◽

Health And Well Being

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Environmental Education in Environmental Engineering: Analysis of the Situation in Colombia and Latin America

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12187239 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (18) ◽

pp. 7239

Author(s):

Pedro Mauricio Acosta Castellanos ◽

Araceli Queiruga-Dios ◽

Ascensión Hernández Encinas ◽

Libia Cristina Acosta

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Latin America ◽

Environmental Education ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Well Being ◽

Environmental Engineering ◽

University Education ◽

Educational Models ◽

Development Goals

Environmental education (EE) has become the only tool for environmental sustainability in training processes in Colombia, for basic cycles in primary and secondary, as well as university education. EE tends to transform human actions in nature, based on multidisciplinary knowledge that supports decision-making. Its goal is to generate a change in social behavior in order to achieve the recovery, conservation, and preservation of the environment. In Colombia, education for sustainable development (ESD) is embedded in EE. These educational models (EE and ESD) seek to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), which generally seek the economic and social well-being of nations, both for current and future generations. Environmental engineering is a relatively new degree course in Colombia and Latin America since it appeared in the mid-nineties, and it must involve EE within its curriculum. Students are trained in this trend. This research intends to demonstrate, through a curricular review of the environmental engineering curricula and also surveying students from this degree, the level of inclusion of EE in Latin America. Strengths are identified in the curricula, such as the strong presence of EE in disciplinary subjects and opportunities for improvement based on the needs of the students. The situation in South America is also included in this study.

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