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Enhancing Newborn Care
Program, Rachna - eSocialSciences - 2009
INHP-II promoted a set of simple interventions to influence neonatal outcomes, including antenatal tetanus toxoid, clean delivery and core care, early and exclusive breastfeeding and thermal care, as well as the identification and intensive home care of the low birth weight and premature babies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969060
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Book Review: ‘Missing Girls’: Many Approaches to an Understanding
Unisa, Sayeed; Reshmi, R. S. - eSocialSciences - 2007
Review of Sex- Selective Abortion in India –Gender, Society, and New Reproductive Technologies by Tulsi Patel; Sage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250066
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The Pilot Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Project (MNCH) at Nilphamari: Profiling the Changes During 2006-07
Rafi, Shahnawaz Mohammad; Nasreen, Hashima-e-; Rashid, … - eSocialSciences - 2009
BRAC health programme (BHP) initiated a pilot maternal, neonatal and child health project (MNCH) in Nilphamari in 2006 to improve the health status of women of reproductive age including neonates and children, through instituting necessary systems and measures. Before launching the programme, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543135
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Abortion Costs and Financing: A Review
eSocialSciences - 2005
A short review of the cost of acccessing abortion services and how women finance these costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699249
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008580001
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Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2013
Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133126
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Are Embankments a Good Flood-­-Control Strategy? A Case Study of the Kosi River
Somanathan, E - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper makes a first pass at evaluating embankments. Using two years or more of data from 504 households in 28 villages in the floodplain of the Kosi river in north Bihar, a comparison of the agricultural output, wage incomes, unemployment, and other indicators of well-being between villages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945321
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Monetary Incentives to Reduce Open-Field Rice-Straw Burning in the Plains of Nepal
Pant, Krishna Prasad - eSocialSciences - 2014
In southern Nepal, rice straw burning in open fields is common practice. This is problematic because biomass burning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945376
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low …-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three successive rounds of the Nepal LSMS corresponding to 1995, 2003 and 2010, while other … is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010.[BREAD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945390
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The Impact of Climate Change on Rice Prduction in Nepal
Karn, Prakash K. - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper examines the sensitivity of rice yield in Nepal to changes in climate variables and the magnitude of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945503