Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top … of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic … outcomes including the timing of marriage. The authors examine marriage outcomes for a sample of children interviewed in …

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 …

in reducing infant and child mortality. But there is a need to differentiate between the efficacy of oral rehydration … being expressed about the favorable impact of NCDDP activities on child mortality. There is no doubt that the NCDDP greatly … increased both awareness of the dangers of dehydration consequent upon diarrhea in children and knowledge of oral rehydration …

The authors use a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and …

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 …

combines data on cumulative health care worker deaths from Ebola, the stock of health care workers and mortality rates pre …, infant, and under-five mortality. The paper estimates how the loss of health care workers to Ebola will likely affect non …-Ebola mortality even after the disease is eliminated. It then estimates the size of the resource gap that needs to be filled to avoid …