health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …

paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only …

-scores). Using the experience of the Kashmir insurgency, I find that stress during pregnancy and the limited access to health … link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …

case, interesting interpretations would be arriving on the possible interactions among anthropometry and inequality which …

, planners etc. children are vital to the nation’s present and her future. The increasing interest on child health and nutrition … children, and traces the link between health and nutrition in the family and the acquisition of human capital, recognizing the …Child health as an area of policy option has been given much attention by health economists, public health experts …