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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 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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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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smaller full-sample effects on school enrollment, child labor participation, and measures of health service use. One … education condition, and young children and mothers were only subject to health conditions in the absence of older children … smaller and insignificant effects on children in larger households. We only find significant effects on health service use …
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group still faces deficits in crucial dimensions of well-being, such as education, job formality, and health care, which are …
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This report analyzes the structure of family health spending in Brazil between 1987 and 1996, using a survey taken in … 1996 survey of health spending by households. This report also tries to identify, although indirectly, the impact that … universal access to health care had on family spending by income. Although the analysis found that the these measures did not …
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O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar o financiamento das formas públicas e privadas de organização do setor saúde na América Latina e Caribe (ALC) e seu comportamento nos anos noventa. O artigo se estrutura em três partes. A primeira busca estabelecer alguns conceitos como ponto de partida...
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) Design; 4) Performance; 5) Issues and Problems; 6) Political Economy of Change. An appraisal of the health situation …
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This presentation discusses the effects of violence in children as well as successful programs that worked to reduce child/youth violence in Jamaica. The presentation was prepared for the International Inter-American Seminar: "Seguridad y Convivencia Ciudadana: Examinando Experiencias y...
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