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"...and then she died" : Indonesia Maternal Health Assessment
World Bank - 2012
Maternal health remains one of the top priorities of the Government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) because reductions in maternal mortality have been slows. The current Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) for Indonesia is 228 but with existing programs and interventions the...
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Maternal Health Out-of-Pocket Expenditure and Service Readiness in Lao PDR : Evidence for the National Free Maternal and Child Health Policy from a Household and Health Center Surv...
World Bank - 2014
Although Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH), attainment of the Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) still remains a challenge. This is largely due to the barriers imposed by financial restrictions. In order to address these financial barriers, the...
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Maternal Health, Child Health and Nutrition in Lao PDR : Evidence from a Household Survey in Six Central and Southern Provinces
World Bank - 2014
Despite being on-track on the child- and maternal-health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Lao PDR continues to have some of the worst maternal and child health (MCH) and nutrition outcome indicators, both globally as well as in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. This report presents...
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How to Protect and Promote the Nutrition of Mothers and Children in Latin America and the Caribbean : Purpose of the Toolkit
World Bank - 2011
mothers and children in crises and emergencies. Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most vulnerable regions in the … intensified nutritional needs, most notably pregnant and lactating mothers as well as children less than two years of age. Its … guidance on how to safeguard the nutritional status of mothers and children during times of stability, crisis, and emergency …
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Brazil : Maternal and Child Health
World Bank - 2013
that the federal government programs in women and children's health could be expanded by prioritizing on failed expenditure …
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Burkina Faso : Opportunities for Children
World Bank - 2013
Burkina Faso's Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) of the 2000s, which were implemented as annually rolled-over Priority Action Programs, focused on four pillars: a) accelerating broad based growth; b) expanding access to social services for the poor; c) increasing employment and...
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The effects of migration on child health in Mexico
Hildebrandt, Nicole - 2005
"The authors investigate the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a … to the United States in order to correct for the possible endogeneity of migrant status. They find that children in … for children in migrant households. These results provide a broader and more nuanced view of the health consequences of …
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Gender, time use, and models of the household
Apps, Patricia - 2004
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An evaluation of the performance of regression discontinuity design on progresa
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2004
. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purpose of evaluating the impact of the … estimates comparable to the experimental estimates were obtained when the authors used as a comparison group children from …
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Maternal Mortality
World Bank - 2012
Over 529,000 women die annually from complications during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period. Nearly all of these deaths occur in developing countries, where fertility rates are higher and a woman's life time risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth is over 400 times higher...
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