Alison Slack
Biographic Data
| ID | 6367450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Slack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Slack |
| SIGNATURE | SLACK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, 1200 17th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036-3006, USA; fax: (1) 202-467-4439 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Urbanization and caregiving
This paper considers the role of caregiving on children's health and development with a special focus on identifying the constraints on effective caregiving in urban areas, and the potential solutions. It uses the extended UNICEF framework for nutrition which suggests that there are six major types of care behaviour: feeding and breast-feeding, food preparation and handling, hygiene behaviour, psycho-social care, care for women and home health pr…
Urbanization and caregiving
This paper considers the role of caregiving on children's health and development with a special focus on identifying the constraints on effective caregiving in urban areas, and the potential solutions. It uses the extended UNICEF framework for nutrition which suggests that there are six major types of care behaviour: feeding and breast-feeding, food preparation and handling, hygiene behaviour, psycho-social care, care for women and home health pr…
Reaching the Top
Putting Women on the Agenda
Female Circumcision
The introductory section of this article on female genital mutilation (FGM) briefly describes the historical and geographic extent of FGM and the main arguments supporting and rejecting it. The second section describes the four basic types of FGM as well as the conditions under which it occurs and takes a closer look at its origins. The third section examines the rationales presented for continuing FGM including achieving sexual control over fema…
Female Circumcision
The introductory section of this article on female genital mutilation (FGM) briefly describes the historical and geographic extent of FGM and the main arguments supporting and rejecting it. The second section describes the four basic types of FGM as well as the conditions under which it occurs and takes a closer look at its origins. The third section examines the rationales presented for continuing FGM including achieving sexual control over fema…
Urbanization and caregiving
This paper considers the role of caregiving on children's health and development with a special focus on identifying the constraints on effective caregiving in urban areas, and the potential solutions. It uses the extended UNICEF framework for nutrition which suggests that there are six major types of care behaviour: feeding and breast-feeding, food preparation and handling, hygiene behaviour, psycho-social care, care for women and home health pr…
Female Circumcision
The introductory section of this article on female genital mutilation (FGM) briefly describes the historical and geographic extent of FGM and the main arguments supporting and rejecting it. The second section describes the four basic types of FGM as well as the conditions under which it occurs and takes a closer look at its origins. The third section examines the rationales presented for continuing FGM including achieving sexual control over fema…
Reaching the Top
Putting Women on the Agenda
Urbanization and caregiving
This paper considers the role of caregiving on children's health and development with a special focus on identifying the constraints on effective caregiving in urban areas, and the potential solutions. It uses the extended UNICEF framework for nutrition which suggests that there are six major types of care behaviour: feeding and breast-feeding, food preparation and handling, hygiene behaviour, psycho-social care, care for women and home health pr…
Urbanization and caregiving
This paper considers the role of caregiving on children's health and development with a special focus on identifying the constraints on effective caregiving in urban areas, and the potential solutions. It uses the extended UNICEF framework for nutrition which suggests that there are six major types of care behaviour: feeding and breast-feeding, food preparation and handling, hygiene behaviour, psycho-social care, care for women and home health pr…
Political science (5 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Hygiene (2 works)