importance in the Bangladeshi diet; and the impact of observed consumption patterns on mortality and resistance to infectious … diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase … than fish for child health. In addition, mothers' individual preferences for different animal-source foods, and the …

mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … mortality risk is higher among malnourished children, selective mortality has only a minor impact on the measured nutritional … scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations …

Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys. A U-shaped association between drinking water salinity and infant and neonatal mortality … is found, suggesting higher mortality when salinity is very low or high. With fresh drinking water, the marginal effect … pregnancy. Severe salinity needs to be addressed if the recent gains in infant and neonatal mortality are to be sustained …

. Children who are most at risk of experiencing poor feeding include those who are born small, have younger mothers, and live in … that initiatives to end undernutrition in the region should focus on improving the diets of young children. This review of …

factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … reflected in the intake of nutrients such as protein, calcium, and iron for children's physical growth. Vitamins A and C are … important for reducing morbidity. Children's growth and morbidity affect their cognitive development, which is critical for the …

find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that … in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on … whether, under the economic liberalization program known as Doi Moi, this reduction in child mortality has been sustained …

. However, the social effects of debt relief are not well known. The paper employs micro data on infant mortality from 56 … on child health. The retrospective fertility structure of the data allows for analysis using the within-mother variation … interim debt relief, the probability of infant mortality goes down by about 0.5 percentage point. This translates into about 3 …

adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic achievement for mothers and their … children, and as the potential determinant of inter-generational poverty traps. However, the question of whether pregnancy … opportunities of the young mothers. Actually, women who gave birth during their adolescence have on average 0.34 more years of …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the … importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother?s education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …