Inequalities in child health in Bolivia: Has Morales made a difference?

Heaton, Tim B.; Crookston, Benjamin T.; Knowlton, David Clark

doi:10.1080/14461242.2014.11081974

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“…According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), in 2011 malnutrition in Bolivia resulted in 27 percent of the nation’s children suffering stunting in their physical growth, a very poor record for the nation when compared to 14 percent average across all of Latin America. The infant mortality rate in Bolivia in 2011 was 40, double the South American average, although at least some improvement over the 93 per 1,000 recorded in 2003 (Heaton et al, 2014, p. 208). Clearly there is more work for the program to do, even though some critics on the right, such as opposition politician José Luis Parada from the department of Santa Cruz, see Bono Juana Azurduy as “demagogic and irresponsible” (McGuire, 2013, p. 20).…”

Section: Morales’ Poverty Reduction Programsmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…After Bolivia joined the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) in April 2006, Cuba sent nearly 2,000 doctors, stationed chiefly among rural populations that had heretofore been little served. Bolivia soon opened or expanded 20 hospitals and 11 eye clinics, with Cubans playing a key role in providing trained medical personnel (Heaton et al, 2014, pp. 209–211).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Progress in Bolivia: Declining the United States Influence and the Victories of Evo Morales

Pineo

2016

Journal of Developing Societies

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This article provides an assessment of economic and social progress in Bolivia under Evo Morales. An examination of the leading factors that explain Bolivia’s turn to the left is offered, focusing on how the US policies and actions contributed to the collapse of the old regime. The social and economic policy directions since Morales assumed office is presented, followed by a discussion of the process of creating a Bolivian understanding of democracy, one that is deeper and richer than the nation has experienced heretofore.

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Section: Morales’ Poverty Reduction Programsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Morales’ Poverty Reduction Programsmentioning

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Progress in Bolivia: Declining the United States Influence and the Victories of Evo Morales

Pineo

2016

Journal of Developing Societies

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“…Many of these governments, including the FSLN in Nicaragua, declared an about-face in citizens' entitlements to health care and other public services (Tejerina Silva et al 2009). But there have been surprisingly few studies of governments' fulfillment of these commitments (for exceptions see Heaton et al 2014;Tejerina Silva et al 2009;Tejerina Silva et al 2011). It might be argued that changes in the gendered expectations and rewards for care work should not be expected because the neoliberal reforms are themselves difficult to reverse.…”

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Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work: The Labor Conditions of Nicaraguan Nurses under Sandinismo’s “Second Stage”

Kowalchuk

2022

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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This article examines how the labor conditions of nurses in Nicaragua have evolved through twenty-five years of health care policy and regime transition, focusing on the period since the return to power in 2007 of the Frente Sandinista de la Liberación Nacional (FSLN). I ask whether the deterioration in nurses' work-related well-being that were imposed by neoliberal health care restructuring have been redressed by the FSLN. I connect findings from interviews and focus groups with over fifty nurses to long-standing patterns in the gendering of care work, as well as the Sandinista track record in exploiting these patterns. Also relevant is the FSLN's mutual antagonism with feminist movements and its incremental but pronounced turn toward a regressive stance on gender equality. Finally, a steady drift toward authoritarianism by the FSLN government constrains the capacity for nurses to collectively assert their interests as workers and professionals. Este artículo examina la evolución de las condiciones laborales de las enfermeras nicaragüenses durante 25 años de políticas de salud y de transiciones del gobierno, con un enfoque principal sobre el período después del retorno al poder del Frente Sandinista para la Liberación Nacional (FSLN) en 2007. De interés particular son los deterios de las condiciones y el bienestar de las enfermeras a raíz de la reestructuración neoliberal en la salud. Se indaga hasta qué medida estos han sido abordados por el FSLN. Al presentar los hallazgos de entrevistas y grupos de enfoque con más de 50 enfermeras, se examina cómo la falta de mejoramiento en su situación está relacionada con patrones de larga trayectoria en la relación género y trabajo de cuido, y con la tendencia de los sandinistas de explotar estos patrones. De relevancia también es el antagonismo mutuo entre el FSLN y los movimientos feministas, y el paulatino pero marcado rechazo de parte del FSLN hacia la equidad de género. Por fin, la gradual deriva del gobierno del FSLN hacia el autoritarismo restringe la capacidad de las enfermeras de reclamar colectivamente sus intereses como trabajadores y profesionales.

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Reclaiming the Authority to Plan: How the Legacy of Structural Adjustment Affected Bolivia’s Effort to Recentralize Nutrition Planning

Hoey

2017

World Development

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Inequalities in child health in Bolivia: Has Morales made a difference?

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Progress in Bolivia: Declining the United States Influence and the Victories of Evo Morales

Progress in Bolivia: Declining the United States Influence and the Victories of Evo Morales

Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work: The Labor Conditions of Nicaraguan Nurses under Sandinismo’s “Second Stage”

Reclaiming the Authority to Plan: How the Legacy of Structural Adjustment Affected Bolivia’s Effort to Recentralize Nutrition Planning

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