This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund … country-specific Demographic and Health Surveys to investigate the effects of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative … on child health. The retrospective fertility structure of the data allows for analysis using the within-mother variation …

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental … factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually affect child health, so it is helpful to use alternative tools …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and …; dietary preferences related to religion and ethnicity; nutrition education; and administration of public health and nutrition …

Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records … from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants … diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase …

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 …

for male children, the same cultural norm widely known to cause excess mortality before birth or at young ages. Using … adult mortality is higher for women with first-born girls, especially the poor and uneducated with limited access to health … care and prenatal sex diagnostic technologies. To ensure the desired sex composition of children, these women resort to a …

that initiatives to end undernutrition in the region should focus on improving the diets of young children. This review of …. Children who are most at risk of experiencing poor feeding include those who are born small, have younger mothers, and live in … poorer households or in communities with less access to, or lower uptake of, primary health services. Initiatives to improve …

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective … mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations …

been at work, including reductions among the poor (but not among the better-off) in coverage of health services and in …. The authors examine various policy scenarios, including expanding coverage of health services, water and sanitation, and … find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance … sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets …, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1 …