, their clinic attendance, and drug availability, with a focus on seven conditions accounting for a large share of child and … maternal mortality: malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea, pneumonia, diabetes, neonatal asphyxia, and postpartum hemorrhage. With … likelihood that a facility has at least one staff present with competency and the key inputs required to provide child, neonatal …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the … West Bengal, this paper reexamines the determinants of child wasting and maternal anemia. The findings bear out the … importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of …