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Title Safe water, sanitation, and early childhood malnutrition in East Africa : an African feminist analysis of the lives of women in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda / edited by Assata Zerai and Brenda N. Sanya
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018

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Contents Introduction / Assata Zerai and Brenda N. Sanya -- The lives of women and children in East Africa / Assata Zerai -- Structural and economic analysis of declines in water and sanitation in East Africa / Shorma Bianca Bailey and Assata Zerai -- Public goods, citizenship rights : how lingering structural inequalities define social services and government policies / Brenda N. Sanya -- Access to safe water, women's empowerment, and decentralization systems in Tanzania / Teresia R. Olemako -- Gender as social structure and its potential impact on safe water and sanitation technologies in East Africa : an African feminist analysis / Assata Zerai and Rebecca Morrow -- Environmental contamination and early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda / Assata Zerai, Rebecca Morrow, and Courtney Cuthbertson -- Conclusion : paying serious attention to women's scholarship to influence policy in East Africa / Assata Zerai and Joanna Perez -- Appendix 1: River basin model and decentralization system -- Appendix 2: Population in the area under study in Tanzania's Pangani River basin -- Appendix 3: Safe Global Water and Sanitation Institute Summit program
Summary "Presenting a framework that considers the ways that neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children, authors explore the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda."--Publisher's summary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Public health -- Africa, East
Children -- Health and hygiene -- Africa, East
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Africa, East
Women -- Africa, East -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Children -- Africa, East -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Children -- Diseases -- Nutritional aspects -- Africa, East
Water quality -- Africa, East
Sanitation -- Africa, East
Public health.
Malnutrition.
Children.
Women.
Public Health
Malnutrition
Child
Women
public health.
children (people by age group)
women (female humans)
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Women
Malnutrition
Children
Children -- Diseases -- Nutritional aspects
Children -- Health and hygiene
Children -- Social conditions
Public health
Sanitation
Water quality
Women -- Health and hygiene
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Africa, Eastern. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001596
Africa, Eastern
Subject Eastern Africa
Africa, East
Form Electronic book
Author Zerai, Assata, 1964- editor, contributor.
Sanya, Brenda N., editor, contributor
LC no. 2017055690
ISBN 9781498520843
1498520847