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Family Practice Vol. 7, No. 4, 329-332
© Oxford University Press 1990

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The Child Survival Revolution: A Critique

CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN

Box 40874, Nairobi, Kenya

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine what has come to be known as the Child Survival Revolution, a programme launched by UNICEF to promote growth monitoring, oral rehydration therapy (OAT), breast-feeding and immunizations in the Third World. These four health interventions have collectively come to be known as GOBI or GOBI-FF if one adds the provision of food and family planning services.

Two (not necessary original) hypotheses will be explored here: firstly, the child survival revolution cannot work in isolation. It must be tied to other, more fundamental changes in political and economic power structures; secondly, the success of these interventions is inextricably tied to their acceptance and implementation at the grassroots level (a bottom-up versus a top-down approach).


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