"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …

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. …

-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. …

demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the … population. Data collected by the 2000 Demographic and Health Survey indicate that although there were more deaths across the …

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …

Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … contributes to the literature on the economic analysis of conflict. Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia … educated background were more likely to die. Infant mortality was also at very high levels during the period, and disability …