DVM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Health Literacy, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Infant Mortality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2110
• Professor: Sonia Gulati

Document Summary

For the same reason it"s important for boys. Education is a good investment, with high rates of individual (higher income) and social (better health literacy for their family) returns. Apart from petro-states, no country has achieved consistent economic growth without near universal primary education and at least 20% completion of secondary education. Education builds social cohesion, sense of community, national unity, sense of shared purpose. Education is a human right, recognised in international human rights law/ because the law says so (convention on the rights of the child, udhr, covenant on economic social and cultural right) Disproportionate amount of children out of school are girls (55% of are girls, whereas 51% of school-age children are boys) They get treated differently before, during, and after they go to school. Treated differently by parents, families, communities, school authorities, and labour markets. Connected with the agency you have in your household and community. Wider range of choice about how they live their lives.