on human health in Chile, finding substantial impacts on both classes of outcomes. We use data on 15 wildfire seasons …

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …

outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation on child growth. However, limited … water contaminated with E. coli could affect the nutritional status of children through various possible biological pathways … uptake and absorption. This study explores the relationship between contaminated water and stunting prevalence among children …

age. To protect the health, development, and wellbeing of young children, decision-makers must identify and reduce …This report complements Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development by looking at environmental health issues … that affect child health broadly, while also exploring the links through malnutrition. This report argues that …

This paper combines 172 Demography and Health Survey data sets from 70 countries to estimate the effect of water and …-region chosen, that water and sanitation infrastructure lowers the odds of children to suffering from diarrhea by 7-17 percent, and … reduces the mortality risk for children under the age of five by about 5-20 percent. The effects seem largest for modern …

The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the … mortality rate for children born during the crisis of the late 1980s, which implies that about 17,000 more children died than …, but it appears that the collapse in public and private expenditures on health played an important role …

Obesity, as a health and social problem with rising prevalence and soaring economic cost, is increasingly drawing … obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is fragile. Using the health capital development theory, this study …

decades has led to an improvement in children's health. The implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the health programs …, focusing on the contribution of preventive health care in improving children's survival rates in Burkina Faso. The data used …. This study investigated factors that have contributed to the recent improvement in the survival of children under five …