"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of … surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …

child health and measures of parenting quality are associated with performance on the TVIP. Children with lower hemoglobin …"Paxson and Schady examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status, child health …, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children …

The Government of Tajikistan has identified improving maternal and child health (MCH) as key priorities in its new … Health Sector Strategy for 2010-2020. The Government recognizes that improving MCH outcomes is critical to achieve the … Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for maternal and child health over the next four years. Tajikistan's data on most of the MDG …

economic and social development. What factors contribute to the excessive mortality, ill health, and disability in Russia …The poor health status of Russia's economically active adult population-its human capital-is imperiling sustainable … projects the health and economic gains that could result from such a program. …

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 …"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between …

with the economic models of child health, it explores the relationship between altitude and child health within a … cluster through multilevel statistical modeling. After controlling for characteristics of the children, families, and … communities, the data show a significant nonlinear relationship between altitude and child nutritional status. Peruvian children …