The benefits of good health to individuals and to society are strongly positive and improving the health of the poor is … a key Millennium Development Goal. A typical health strategy advocated by some is increased public spending on health … vaccines to ameliorate infectious diseases bedeviling the developing nations. But if the objective is better health outcomes at …

, allowing some modest benchmarking exercises. These estimates show that low-income countries generally lag significantly behind … higher-income countries. Efficiency has improved during the 1990s in energy and education but has not improved significantly …

of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper the authors help fill this gap by … investigating the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a … this period, allowing the authors to assess the permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. The analysis controls …

with the economic models of child health, it explores the relationship between altitude and child health within a … effect of hypoxia on growth could be compensated by other favorable health and environmental conditions. …