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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
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Working with Existing Systems: Lessons from INHP
CARE, CARE - eSocialSciences - 2009
Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502491
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170185
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Target Free Approach for Family Welfare in Gujarat: A Review of Policy and Its Implementation
Kumar, B L - eSocialSciences - 2009
The introduction of the Target Free Approach (TFA) has been a major policy shift in the health and family welfare … of health care and reproductive and child health services. In this study both quantitative as well as qualitative data … were collected and analysed, which included Focus Group Discussions of users and providers of health and family welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995386
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - eSocialSciences - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017996
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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496178
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of...
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HIV Prevention in Vulnerable Indian States: Lessons from the Chayan Project
CARE, CARE - eSocialSciences - 2009
This document highlights the results and associated processes from Chayan’s implementation experience under the RACHNA program. The programmatic framework, designed for low-prevalence contexts in India, draws on standard targeted intervention approaches but is grounded in community-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512428
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Right to Food Security Bill: Challenges and Opportunities
Mishra, Rudra Narayan - eSocialSciences - 2011
from hunger and improve the nutritional intake of women and children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393984
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Working and Living Conditions of Women Domestic Workers: Evidences from Mumbai
Paul, G.D Bino; Dattagupta, Sushanta; R, Venkatesha Murthy - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper, exploring primary data collected from 1510 women domestic workers in Mumbai, evidently brings out that … social security, consumption of edible items, consumption under PDS system, health, union awareness, time use, household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319333