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 …

In the immediate post conflict period, Afghanistan's health services were in a deplorable and chaotic state. Access and … utilization of reproductive health services and skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first month after delivery are … care only from female providers, one barrier to expansion of services was the lack of qualified female health workers who …

analysis includes an estimation of changes in smoking prevalence, mortality, life expectancy, and public health expenditures by …The main objectives of this paper are to estimate the burden of tobacco-caused mortality as a whole and by main tobacco …-related diseases in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, and to assess the distributional health impact of an increase in …

China has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). It reduced maternal deaths from 1,500 per … births, and has already achieved its MDG 4 target of reducing child mortality to 16 deaths per 1,000 live births. This note … explores the actions China has taken to reduce child and maternal mortality, focusing on key policies and programs since the …

Despite international support for adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights (SRHR) (for … mortality and morbidity. At the global level, adolescent females 10 to 14 years of age are twice as likely to die in childbirth …

Nepal has achieved its targets for MDGs 4 and 5a. Maternal mortality declined from 790 to an estimated 190 deaths per … 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013 an impressive 76 percent decline. Under-five mortality showed a similarly … impressive decline going from 142 to 42 deaths per 1,000 births between 1990 and 2012. This Health, Nutrition, and Population …

improving maternal and child health. Child-mortality (under 5 years old) declined from 123 to 41 deaths per 1,000 live births … between 1990 and 2012. In addition, maternal mortality more than halved from 510 to 200 deaths per 100,000 live births between … 1990 and 2013, a 61 percent decline. This note explores the key maternal and child health policies and programs that have …

-specific interventions, but also exploring costs for a selected number of nutrition-sensitive interventions implemented outside of the health … health, social protection, education, and agriculture sectors. …

settings across the world. According to the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum, screening for cervical … incidence and mortality, screening programs must be of high quality. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among …