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 …

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender … gap requires attention. Maldives has made great progress in improving maternal health and has achieved MDG. The total …. Skilled birth attendance is high at 95 percent. Access to maternal health services is fairly equitable by residence and wealth …

issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are … an important health challenge in the Pacific. First, (NCDs) can impose large but often preventable health, financial, and … bulk of health services. Second, risk factors in the Pacific are feeding a pipeline of potentially expensive-to-treat NCDs …

While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are … struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health …-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health insurance (SHI) and private complementary schemes, while benefit …

The aim of the report is to review existing approaches and available policy options to improve access to health care … services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Along with their families, ISWs … informal sector and the literature on efforts toward its health insurance coverage. It also examines several country cases …

This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self …-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …