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This paper examines the causal link between early childhood nutrition and cognition, applying instrumental variables to sibling-differences for a sample of preschool aged Peruvian children. Child-specific shocks in the form of food price changes and household shocks during the critical...
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paper will critically analyze the program effect model with respect to health and nutrition outcomes, present the health and … nutrition evaluation results to date, draw some conclusions regarding the use of CCT programs to improve health and nutrition …
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This paper reports the results of a three-month randomized controlled trial to estimate the impact of an Internet and mobile telephone short message service (SMS) intervention on adolescents' information about substances and rates of consumption. A low percentage of participants logged on to the...
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Effective coverage is a measure of health system performance that combines three aspects of health care service …, methodological issues are discussed and the implications for the evaluation of SPH's projects in maternal and child health are …
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-American Development Bank's policy and strategy regarding indigenous health issues. The paper's conceptual approach and good practice … research helped focus the discussion on the importance of intercultural health practices to promote indigenous peoples' access … to allopathic health as well as to strengthen those traditional health practices based on indigenous peoples' own …
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This is the first study that uniformly analyzes health perceptions in all of Latin America and tests in a systematic … of health self-assessment questions: i) health satisfaction; ii) health status on a scale of 0- 10; and iii) the EuroQol …-national comparisons of health perceptions, but it does not find support for the widely held view that the same applies within countries …
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health tend to be higher the lower the nation's level of economic development. This paper considers a discrete choice model …
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, public policy can be driven by factors that are least likely to improve the population's health. …
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This study is designed to help practitioners prepare and evaluate institutional reforms for education and health …
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on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the … main instruments for addressing neonatal health problems. …
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