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Excerpt from Strengthening Urban Mch Capacity: Urban Maternal and Child Health 1992 Leadership Conference
Good morning. I am honored to be here with you today to participate in the 1992 Urban Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference. The title of this Conference, Strengthening Urban moh Capacity, is, I believe, the direction in which we need to assemble our energies. The needs are great, the challenges are many and the time is short.
Think back, if you Will, for a moment to last year, when the hillsides of Oakland, California were ravaged by fire. Downtown Oakland was not badly damaged by the heat of thc blazes, but it could have been worse, as they say. As the smoke cleared and that crisis ended, there remained a city chronically plagued by high infant death rates, alarming increases in congenital syphilis, and persistent gaps in prenatal care. I Since the riots in Los Angeles, it has become evident that, some of our cities feel the effects of so many other chronic social ills poverty, crumbling City infrastructure, and high unemployment. And just a few weeks, and days ago, Florida, Louisiana and now Hawaii suffered the fury of hurricanes, hurricanes that changed course only to skirt the major urban areas and strike savagely at less populated communities. We still are feeling the effects of Andrew but what about the poor children of Miami, New Orleans and Hawaii who will have to compete with other children left homeless in obtaining limited funds?
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Good morning. I am honored to be here with you today to participate in the 1992 Urban Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference. The title of this Conference, Strengthening Urban moh Capacity, is, I believe, the direction in which we need to assemble our energies. The needs are great, the challenges are many and the time is short.
Think back, if you Will, for a moment to last year, when the hillsides of Oakland, California were ravaged by fire. Downtown Oakland was not badly damaged by the heat of thc blazes, but it could have been worse, as they say. As the smoke cleared and that crisis ended, there remained a city chronically plagued by high infant death rates, alarming increases in congenital syphilis, and persistent gaps in prenatal care. I Since the riots in Los Angeles, it has become evident that, some of our cities feel the effects of so many other chronic social ills poverty, crumbling City infrastructure, and high unemployment. And just a few weeks, and days ago, Florida, Louisiana and now Hawaii suffered the fury of hurricanes, hurricanes that changed course only to skirt the major urban areas and strike savagely at less populated communities. We still are feeling the effects of Andrew but what about the poor children of Miami, New Orleans and Hawaii who will have to compete with other children left homeless in obtaining limited funds?
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Magda G. Peck
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ISBN - 9780260085559
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 171
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Magda G. Peck
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ISBN - 9781528482776
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 173
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