first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large … proportion of child deaths are caused by these diseases is symptomatic of dysfunctional policy strategies and health systems in … tested in a developing country context, and which focus on children as the primary target population. Overall, we find that …

public service delivery and maternal and child health outcomes. The programme had a strong focus on ensuring the … children at baseline. At midline, we find that the mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of … village-based health providers. We detect economically large improvements in pregnancy and well-baby visits by Lady Health …

This paper analyses the health-improving effects of introducing four different constitutional social and environmental … human rights (health, free education, adequate living (or welfare), and environment) and the American Convention on Human … active. By using retrospective fertility surveys conducted in 15 Latin American countries from the Demographic and Health …

In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional … US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals … and the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals, maternal health issues have continued to feature prominently on the …

cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

Objective: To analyse the impact of community approaches to improving newborn health and survival in low … some evidence that community approaches had a stronger effect in south Asia than in sub-Saharan Africa. Community … these approaches in supporting newborn care in weak health systems may need to be re-examined. …

importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its … impact on health outcomes. This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries where achieving sustained … improvements in child health outcomes remains a challenge. This paper uses geocoded sub-national data on the location of WASH aid …

This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of … factors, such as random variations in health. The results of the generalized entropy measures indicate that the overall … inequality in child health is high, particularly in poor and conflict-affected regions. The contribution of inequality of …

A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … Africa. This finding is consistent with the predictions of the unified growth theory and sheds important insights in … explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per …