Background: A significant proportion of children in Zimbabwe live in weakened families and communities where social support is diminishing, impoverishment increasing, and access to health, education and social services are on the decline.
Findings from an FGD of 12 men aged 24-35 years and a 45 year old female who was a case study showed that impoverishment associated with the conflict had increased HRSB ... with onset of the wars, things here changed... poverty increased, insecurity became an issue and, we could not live freely like it was before.
This is principally because reliance on this form of payment creates financial barriers to access health services and the risk of impoverishment is increased [13].
In such cases the net result of moving can be to disrupt access to a series of key assets and opportunities, and result in insufficient access to basic services and livelihood options, impoverishment, and increased exposure to violence and insecurity for both the displaced populations and their host communities (Sherwood et al. 2014, 2015).
Nor is child poverty addressed as a tragic scandal, which is why the looming increased impoverishment is not the shock it should be.
The proposed cuts in Greece have ignited new anger, with many talking openly of increased impoverishment as the nation grapples with a third round of austerity measures in three years.
9 Mental illness can then lead to further impoverishment due to increased health costs, loss of employment and reduced productivity.
In the Baltic Sea, eutrophication has led to shrinkage of distribution area and population declines of species preferring clear and oxygen-rich water, impoverishment of species diversity, increased bioproductivity, and intensification of potentially toxic cyanobacterial blooms [180].
Studies investigating the effects of environmental impoverishment on nociceptive thresholds have reported either increased hypersensitivity or no change; impoverishment therefore has unclear effects on pain sensitivity [ 18- 20].
The lack of continuing professional development in a climate of increasing impoverishment of children and families is.
