surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …

"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility …

"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature …, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living … influences. The nonrandom placement of children is controlled by including the educational attainment of the absent biological …

of the 2009 World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nation children's Fund (UNICEF) Integrated Management of Childhood …-five children. Two main issues are highlighted by this study. Firstly, the quality of primary health care services provided to … children is lacking in many areas, irrespective of the PHC provider's type of training. Second, is that the family medicine and …

tool not only for encouraging families to enroll their children in school, but also keeping them there. Indeed, the results … this, researchers would have to consider what support low-income households might need to monitor and assist their children …

The largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note …, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths …, illnesses, and disabilities, while improving children's growth, and development. IMCI's three main components are to: improve …

disease attributed to environmental factors falls on children below five years of age, who account for about 10 percent of the … world's population. Children are especially susceptible to environmental factors that put them at risk of developing illness …