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Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010

We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...

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Working Together for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Songane, Francisco - eSocialSciences - 2007

Despite years of significant advances in improving child survival and health, the final chapter on ending unnecessary child deaths has not yet been written and advances have stagnated in several countries with the highest child mortality rates. Creative, respectful and effective partnerships...

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Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality in Rural Punjab A Community Based Case-Control Study

Joshi, Rohina - eSocialSciences - 2009

The study aimed at identifying social and biomedical risk factors attributable to perinatal and neonatal mortality (PN, NNM) in rural Punjab.

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Reproductive Health Practices And Health Seeking Behaviour Of Female Sex Workers in Tamil Nadu

Williams, Rachna - eSocialSciences - 2010

their reproductive health needs in terms of pregnancy and postpartum care, contraception, abortion, menstrual hygiene and …

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Market Failure and the Poverty of New Drugs in Maternal Health

Fisk, Nicholas M; Atun, Rifat - eSocialSciences - 2008

A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...

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Costs of Basic Services in Kerala, 2007, Education, Health, Childbirth and Finance (Loans)

Rajan, S. Irudaya; KC, Zachariah - eSocialSciences - 2009

medical services related to pregnancy and childbirth? What is the extent of household indebtedness in Kerala? At what cost …

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Schooling and Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour in Developing Countries

Lloyd, Cynthia B. - eSocialSciences - 2008

contribution of school girl pregnancy to overall pregnancy rates and non-enrolled among adolescents. [Paper presented at the Forum …

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Physical Abuse and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome: a Cohort Study

Jain, Dipty; DL, Jain; N, Ughade S; L, Sadowski - eSocialSciences - 2009

The present study assess association between physical violence during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes. A cross …

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Labour Management: Oxytocin in the context of the Millennium Development Goals

Jeffrey, Patricia - eSocialSciences - 2009

The appropriate use of oxytocin, one of the drugs on which is the focus in the â€˜Tracing Pharmaceuticalsâ€™ project, is directly linked to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 (relating to child mortality and maternal health). Safe Motherhood initiatives have included Active Management...

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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - eSocialSciences - 2010

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … both higher female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the …

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