public service delivery and maternal and child health outcomes. The programme had a strong focus on ensuring the … children at baseline. At midline, we find that the mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of … village-based health providers. We detect economically large improvements in pregnancy and well-baby visits by Lady Health …

needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time … children's health and education in Indonesia. We mobilize several data sources to construct a dataset of more than 32 … spent with children, which is also a critical input into children's development. The net impact is therefore theoretically …

Objective: To assess the feasibility of applying the World Health Organization's proposed 15 indicators of quality of … care for maternal and newborn health at health-facility level in low- and middle-income settings. Methods: Six of the … indicators are about maternal health, five are for newborn health and four are general cross-cutting indicators. We used data …

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 …

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 …

In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We … apply the 'MIMIC' approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …

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 …