, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

century. That said, the disease still accounts for a significant burden of childhood morbidity and mortality in low- and …The reduction in deaths from diarrheal diseases is one of the significant public health successes of the twentieth … remains an unfinished agenda in global health and international aid still stands to make an important impact in the burden. …

mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality … changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal …

In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional … US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals … and the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals, maternal health issues have continued to feature prominently on the …

importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its … impact on health outcomes. This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries where achieving sustained … improvements in child health outcomes remains a challenge. This paper uses geocoded sub-national data on the location of WASH aid …

capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …

Problem: Maternal and neonatal mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries, with poor quality of …

Objective: To analyse the impact of community approaches to improving newborn health and survival in low … and staffing; immediate breastfeeding and facility births; and neonatal mortality. We also extracted data on the primary … from 2001 to 2013. A 25 per cent reduction in neonatal mortality (relative risk, RR: 0.75; 95 per cent confidence interval …

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it … mortality. The historical decline made feasible by the introduction of antibiotics was significantly greater in states that had …