This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition-food security; adequate … caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … environment-on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on data …

This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

This paper studies the effect of maternal depression on early childhood cognition in Peru. The identification strategy …

provided of selected services related to reproductive, maternal and child health, and hypertension-related services. The study …

Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100 … addressed - the low utilization of maternal health (MH) services and weak financial protection, especially among the lower … wealth quintiles, in order to improve the level and equity of maternal health. In order to address these financial barriers …

to have children, and whether to engage in risky behaviors - all of which affect their future health and future … increasing public health costs and depleting human capital. This note briefly presents program and policy approaches that have …

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, notes that we stand at a critical threshold for global health and … development. Too many women and children are still dying because they lack access to quality health care, especially in the least … extremely effective in getting high quality, essential health services to women and children. He remarks that empowering …

health services or interventions through comadronas (midwives) in Solola, Guatemala or the surrounding region. To this end … promoting the consideration and integration of Mayan maternal health practices and beliefs when designing maternal health …

David Malpass, President of the World Bank, discussed the severe health and economic impacts that the Coronavirus 2019 … tailored to the countries to effectively respond to the health, economic, and social shocks that that country are facing. On …