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"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 …
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health issues, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic; (2) examination of institutional structures responsible for population and … reproductive health issues; (3) the performance of the population program since the 1984 Mexico Conference, and during the 10 years …
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Reproductive health (RH) problems account for a significant part of the burden of disease suffered by poor people in … reproductive health including increasing girls' education, preventing and managing sexually transmitted disease, providing … contraception to avoid abortion, improving pre-natal and delivery care, increasing the number of skilled providers of health care …
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(health providers, educators, religious, and community leaders) were conducted to validate quantitative data and to explore … understanding of reproductive health issues, quality of life, and rural poverty--primarily as it affects women--and providing policy … recommendations for addressing reproductive health issues in rural poverty alleviation strategies. The study also explored, albeit on …
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health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …
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sector, which encompasses both health and education. The World Bank's Human Development sector work covers almost the entire … human life cycle, from maternal and neo-natal health, health insurance, early childhood education, school health and … nutrition, basic education, to teacher reform, secondary education and youth skills, higher education, medical and health …
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Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility … mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …
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