https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/19499JamaicaMain_VNR_Report.pdf. For instance, PAHO (1970) and other aid agencies active in the region placed significant responsibility on Caribbean governments, asking them for instance to fortify all imported dried skimmed milk with vitamin A; distribute low-cost iron and folic acid supplements for children under 2 years through health clinics; and subsidise foods for children, such as multi-mix weaning foods made from locally available ingredients. Google Scholar, Grosh ME (1992) The Jamaican food stamps programme. The loans, however, came with conditions that also posed a threat to the nutritional status of children as the following section will show. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00536-5, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00536-5. But some are carried out only in some parts of the island, and some are far removed from the upper echelons of society. If you'd like some insight intothe practice of Obeah in Jamaica, click here. In Elderslie, for instance, it did not reduce overall levels of malnutrition but succeeded in lowering high mortality associated with nutritional deficiency because children that were mildly or moderately malnourished were sought out and then treated in their homes. Then, bend both legs from the knee joint, one at a time. Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos 21(4):14371455, Holt TC (1992) The problem of freedom: race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 18321938. The water is so clear, very shallow, completely. All rights reserved. Several measures adopted to reduce the fiscal deficit directly or indirectly affected the nutritional status of children, including cuts in public employment; reduced spending on health servicesfrom 8 per cent of total public expenditure in 197778 to 6 per cent in 198485; and the introduction of fees for many healthcare facilities (Danielson, 1996, p. 106).Footnote 8 Furthermore, as stipulated by lenders, the Jamaican dollar was devalued and this with the removal of food subsidies led to a massive hike in food prices. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Humanit Soc Sci Commun)