Looks at why child mortality is racial

1. P o w e r a n d
child mortality

2. Who
are
thebaby killers

3. What’s child mortality?
1

4. Caused by chance?
2

5. 3 Caused by government?

6. 4 Caused by global governance?

7. What is
child
mortality

8. U5MR

9. Probability of
dying
between
birth and
five years of
age,
per
1,000
live
births

10. Child survival is one of the most
sensitive indicators of human
welfare, the comparative health of
nations and the effectiveness of
public policy
UNDP 2005: 27

11. Some
numbers…

12. 1 in
143
Mortality
rate in
wealthier
nations
1 in 10
Mortality rate in
low income
countries

13. children under the age of five died, 2011
daily child
mortality rate
2011
% of deaths
in first 28
days of life.
Number who could have been saved
4.4 million
43
19,000
6.9 million

14. India,
Nigeria,
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo,
Pakistan
and China.
%

15. India
%
+
Nigeria

16. Proximate causes of
child deaths

17. Deaths from
malaria
800
thousand

18. malaria
African child deaths from
1
perminute

19. 13
million
deaths from
infectious diseases

20. Deaths from
measles
1MIL L ION
everyyear

21. DEATHS FROM MEASLES-RELATED
COMPLICATIONS PER DAY

22. 452
2011
Human
1
42,007
Soldier and Civilians
158,000
Measles
800,000
Malaria
1,855,000
Diarrhoea
13,012,444
Infectious
Diseases

23. 1 pneumonia
18%
2 preterm complications
14%
3 diarrhoea 11%
4 complications during birth
9%
5 malaria
7%

24. underlying
factor
in about
ONE-THIRD
of
ALL
CHILD
DEATHS
Malnutrition

25. water-born
disease
kills 5,000
per day
www.sanitation-is-dignity.org/why_sanitation

27. 1.8
million
lives
a
year

28. no single measure would do
more to reduce disease and
save lives in the developing
world than clean water and
sanitation provision
Annan 2000: 61.

29. 760,000Child deaths
from diarrhoea
annually
Walker et al (2011):
$3.24
cost per person to
reduce by
92%
global
diarrhoea
deaths

30. Is it
chance

31. Bad luck

32. FAMINE

33. Suggests no human causation

34. child mortality may be

35. act of GOD

36. agency
Absolves us all of responsibility and

37. Is it
government

38. The birth of a child is a
Handwerker, W. Penn (1990) ‘Politics and Reproduction: A
Window on Social Change’, In: Births and power, ed.
Handwerker, W. Penn, Westview: San Francisco, 1-38
POLITICAL EVENT

39. Western model
social contract

40. responsibility
Similar

41. economies often fried
limited capacity for needs
assessment
underdeveloped infrastructure for
distribution

42. Europeans didn’t
build railways
so
africans
could
visittheir friends

43. NGOS,
INGOs
Helped
by aid

44. But hampered by
big
pharma

45. corruption
by
local to global

46. And by dictatorship
and
dictatorships

47. Is it
global
governance

48. What’s
global
governance

49. Response to
globalization
institutionalised management of
international change and
continuity

50. Thousands of subnational,
national and supranational
bodies, civil society
technologies

51. neutral and technocratic, non-ideological

52. a system of rules that –
given the absence of
a central power – is
carried out by a
diversity of actors
on different levels
Beyer 2008

53. No central power

54. privatization

55. If MARKETS ‘solve’
child mortality
how will poor
people
pay?

56.  Socially basic rights are the rights that
serve as necessary conditions for the
enjoyment of other rights.
 E.g., the rights protecting access to basic
needs to subsistence (food, security)

57. Conclusion

58. who
kills
all
the
babies?

59. Random chance of birth to
parents with too few
resources
Corrupt governments with colonial legacies
global governance
privileging liberal ways
that marginalise the
poorest

60. COMMISERATE
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