mortality and malnutrition rates of infants. Family planning, which promotes contraceptive use and the lactational amenorrhea …

. Although advances in improving MDG 4 and MDG 5a (reducing child and maternal mortality, respectively) have been made, progress …

reduced maternal mortality by 6 to 7 percent. In addition, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed may have had led to … modest reductions in nonwhite infant mortality and mortality among children under the age of 2 from diarrhea. These estimates …

The main objectives of this paper are to estimate the burden of tobacco-caused mortality as a whole and by main tobacco … Russia, about 70,000 in Ukraine, and 14,300 in Kazakhstan, representing a key factor of mortality among the working … analysis includes an estimation of changes in smoking prevalence, mortality, life expectancy, and public health expenditures by …

In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …. Evidence from the Variance Decomposition Analysis shows that, almost 6% of future fluctuations in mortality rate are due to …