The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …

from the randomization plan. This paper investigates the impact of the Nutrition Enhancement Program, which aims to improve … child nutrition in Senegal based on a large-scale randomized community intervention. The analysis explicitly deals with …

As Bhutan has progressed financially, its health indicators have also progressed. It has achieved significant gains in … nutrition-specific determinants of undernutrition in Bhutan, among them diarrheal diseases, high parasite loads in parts of the … nutrition-sensitive, such as diseases related to environmental and personal hygiene. The most important causes of stunting are …

Adolescents around the world face tremendous challenges to meeting their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs …. Inadequate access to health information and services, as well as inequitable gender norms, contribute to a lack of awareness … about puberty, sexuality, and basic human rights that can have serious implications on their health and welfare throughout …

-related diseases in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, and to assess the distributional health impact of an increase in … analysis includes an estimation of changes in smoking prevalence, mortality, life expectancy, and public health expenditures by … years period. Reduced tobacco-related morbidity will also result in substantial decrease in health expenditures for the …

Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality … funding for broader public health laboratory services has been relatively neglected. In this paper the authors present a … resources for health research and more activity in this area will lead to greater understanding of the problems and provide more …

China has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). It reduced maternal deaths from 1,500 per …

Despite international support for adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights (SRHR) (for …

In an effort to integrate operational and analytical work on adolescents and youth sexual and reproductive health (SRH …) and Human Rights in Nicaragua, the World Bank, in coordination with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, the Pan American … Health Organization (PAHO), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) conducted the study titled: ?sexual and …

impressive decline going from 142 to 42 deaths per 1,000 births between 1990 and 2012. This Health, Nutrition, and Population …