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The Indonesian health sector is currently experiencing a financing transition that will have a profound impact on the country's efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and national health goals. The transition is marked, on the one hand, by increasing per capita expenditure on health...
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Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context...
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It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program having perverse incentives. This paper analyzes new data from a randomized control trial conducted in...
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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 …
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Policy and programmatic responses to undernutrition in Bangladesh : why coordinated multisectoral actions are needed -- How water and sanitation can improve nutrition outcomes -- Achievements in the water and sanitation sector -- Recommendations
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diseases / Gerald T. Keusch, Christa Fischer-Walker, Jai K. Das, Susan Horton, and Demissie Habte -- Vaccines for children in … -- Management of severe and moderate acute malnutrition in children / Lindsey Lenters, Kerri Wazny, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta -- Infant …
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Hygiene information and practices play a critical role in preventing diseases, particularly among children. Hygiene … presence of household communication assets to explore potential effects on children's socio-emotional scores. In the presence … of contamination biases, the study exploited the longitudinal sample of children in the surveys to reduce time …
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distributes school uniforms to children in poor communities. The Nongovernmental organization (NGO) used a lottery to determine …
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This paper builds on global experience and Kenya's specific context to identify an effective approach to scaling up … Kenya's specific needs. The paper considers high-impact nutrition-specific interventions that largely rely on typical health … 700,000 cases of stunting among children under five averted. This investment will be very cost-effective with an estimated …
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