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Excess female mortality in Africa
Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...
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Beyond access to basic services : perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique
Llop-Gironés, Alba; Jones, Sam - 2019
The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on … access to medical care. We undertake a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the social determinants of health in … health care nor material conditions are related to better health outcomes. Rather, we find that macro factors, proxied by …
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Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization
Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2016
We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … Development Facility of the United Nations Development Programme is successful in improving maternal health-care utilization … health-care utilization. The effectiveness of the programme would have been greater in the absence of conflict, although the …
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Health consequences of sterilizations
De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Dumas, Christelle - 2017
effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the consequences of sterilization on maternal health. To do so, we take advantage of …
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Characteristics and determinants of child malnutrition in Mozambique, 2003-11
Cardoso, José; Allwright, Lindsey; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this study, using the Mozambican Demographic and Health Surveys 2003 and …
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Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania
Opoku, Kwadwo; Mugizi, Francisco M. P.; Boahen, Emmanuel Adu - 2021
This paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey-the Integrated Labour Force Survey-and a censored bivariate probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania. Our findings indicate that, compared to men,...
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Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban Mozambique
Bischler, Jana; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jasper, Paul; … - 2022
In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles. Using data from a panel of individuals in 2017 and...
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Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behind
Ng, James - 2018
paper examines how the temporary migration of parents for the sole purpose of work affects the health outcomes of children … health used, height-for-age, serves as a proxy for stunting. The evidence suggests that whether parental migration is … beneficial or deleterious to child health depends on which parent moved. In particular, migration of the mother has an adverse …
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Health, development, and institutional factors : the Mozambique case
Garrido, Paulo Ivo - 2020
The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the … Mozambican health sector-and, through it, economic and social development-particularly for the poorer and more vulnerable, such …
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Maternal mortality and women's political participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2018
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 also leads to an 8-11 per cent increase in skilled birth...
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