significant health impact, while in rural areas increasing vaccination coverage is important for mortality reduction. …Empirical studies on health at a disaggregate level-by socioeconomic group or geographic location-can provide useful … information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, the author investigates …

Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top … of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic …

The authors use a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and …

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to analyze the impact of the profound 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru on infant mortality and …The effect of economic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. The authors use data from the … anthropometrics. They show that there was an increase in the infant mortality rate of about 2.5 percentage points for children born in …

The diffusion of cost-effective life saving technologies has reduced infant mortality in much of the developing world … this issue have been mixed. This paper assembles data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in 59 countries to analyze … the relationship between changes in per capita GDP and infant mortality. The authors show that there is a strong, negative …

Many people see an effective preventive AIDS vaccine as the best solution to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Ten years ago many … developed and many candidates are being tested. Strategies to implement HIV/AIDS vaccination need to be developed to be ready … determine issues such as: What will be the impact of the vaccine on the epidemic? Who should be vaccinated? Will an AIDS vaccine …

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 …

non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher …

The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

Inequalities in health have recently started to receive a good deal of attention in the developing world. But how large … inequalities in health across countries. The author explores the reasons for these inter-country differences, and concludes that … large inequalities in health, are not apparently associated with large inequalities in income, or with small shares of …