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This paper examines the causal link between early childhood nutrition and cognition, applying instrumental variables to sibling-differences for a sample of preschool aged Peruvian children. Child-specific shocks in the form of food price changes and household shocks during the critical...
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paper will critically analyze the program effect model with respect to health and nutrition outcomes, present the health and … nutrition evaluation results to date, draw some conclusions regarding the use of CCT programs to improve health and nutrition …
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Effective coverage is a measure of health system performance that combines three aspects of health care service …, methodological issues are discussed and the implications for the evaluation of SPH's projects in maternal and child health are …
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-American Development Bank's policy and strategy regarding indigenous health issues. The paper's conceptual approach and good practice … research helped focus the discussion on the importance of intercultural health practices to promote indigenous peoples' access … to allopathic health as well as to strengthen those traditional health practices based on indigenous peoples' own …
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Efficiency and equity are priorities in the social policies of both industrial and developing countries. This study examines how different value judgments lead to different concepts of efficiency and equity and demonstrates that conceptual clarity can improve social services delivery.
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Shielding the Poor presents a group of studies on social protection in the developing world from leading researchers. These studies address the issue of vulnerability of the poor to adverse shocks and propose policies to increase their protection and coping capacity. The studies emphasize the...
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From Few to Many is the first comprehensive look at Colombia's 1993 health system reforms. It describes the … implementation of universal health insurance, including a subsidized system for the poor, and examines the impact of this and other …. Prior to the reforms, a quarter of the Colombian population had health insurance. Subsidies failed to reach the poor, who …
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This report represents the collaborative effort of three partners: the World Bank, the Pan American Health Organization … (PAHO), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This book explores trends and differentials in women's health …; examples of good practices in delivery and financing of women's health programs and the key dimensions of women's health that …
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The report explores the convergence of the health sector reform processes and the improvement of sexual and … reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean. It includes the results of three sub-regional meetings, sponsored by the …
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