Document Source: Marisa O Ensor
Year: 2010
Tags: analysis, earthquake, statistics
Categories: Restavek
Language: English
With a recorded magnitude of 7.3 and a death toll of over 200,000 people, the January 12, 2010 earthquake provoked Haiti’s worst catastrophe in 200 years. The country was already the poorest in the Western hemisphere before this disaster. Long-term political strife, high population density and a severely depressed economy have been compounded in recent …
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Document Source: ANR
Year: 2016
Tags: adolescent, analsyis, earthquake
Categories: Restavek
Language: English
Working with street children and adolescents who lived through the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, this paper aims to assess the prevalence of symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression in relation to peritraumatic distress, and age, and to explore other risk factors and socio-demographic characteristics, four years after the events. Between March and June 2014, with …
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Year: 2012
Tags: analysis, assessment, earthquake, statistics
Categories: Restavek
Language: English
The vulnerability of children in Haiti has increased dramatically since the earthquake in January 2010. Prior to the earthquake, the prevalence of orphans and at-risk children was high but since the earthquake, more than 1 million people—with more than 380 000 children remaining displaced and living in over 1200 displacement sites. These existing conditions leave …
Document Source: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Year: 2014
Tags: analysis, nutrition, statistics, study
Categories: Restavek
Language: English
Between 1995 and 2012, many surveys including child and maternal nutrition indicators were conducted in Haiti. While many questions emerged from the results of those surveys, they have remained unanswered, in particular as they pertain to the determinants of poor children’s and women’s nutrition in Haiti. The purpose of this paper is to fill that …
Document Source: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Year: 2010
Tags: analysis, assessment, education
Categories: Restavek
Language: English
The authors examine the impact of remittances on the schooling of children in various Haitian communities with a high incidence of out-migration. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, they find that, in some communities, remittances raise school attendance for all children regardless of whether they have household members abroad.