Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records … from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants … diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase …

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental … factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually affect child health, so it is helpful to use alternative tools …

This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund … country-specific Demographic and Health Surveys to investigate the effects of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative … on child health. The retrospective fertility structure of the data allows for analysis using the within-mother variation …

among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …

that initiatives to end undernutrition in the region should focus on improving the diets of young children. This review of …. Children who are most at risk of experiencing poor feeding include those who are born small, have younger mothers, and live in … poorer households or in communities with less access to, or lower uptake of, primary health services. Initiatives to improve …

been at work, including reductions among the poor (but not among the better-off) in coverage of health services and in …. The authors examine various policy scenarios, including expanding coverage of health services, water and sanitation, and … find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective … mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations …

Argentina's Plan Nacer provides insurance for maternal and child health care to uninsured families. The program … use and quality of maternal and child health care services and health outcomes. The provinces use these resources to pay … health facilities to provide maternal and child health care services to beneficiaries. This paper analyzes the impact of Plan …

education provision by creating a diverse curriculum for the use of the extra time in school. Unlike the model prevalent in most … consideration on how the additional school hours are used and organized, which requires a well-structured and integrated curriculum …

. The preferred estimator suggests that the project reduced illness among children, improved self-assessed health, and …The literature contains few impact evaluations of health sector reforms, especially those involving broad and …-funded health sector reform project in China known as Health VIII. On the supply-side, the project combined infrastructure …