Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million … population as per the World Health Organization standards. Several studies have shown that stunted growth during childhood … increasing their likelihood of being poor when they grow up. To reduce stunting, the Government of Tanzania and development …

. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis …This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status …

How do conditional cash transfers impact health-related outcomes? This paper examines the 2010 randomized introduction … of a program in Tanzania and finds nuanced impacts. An initial surge in clinic visits after 1.5 years -- due to more … visits by those already complying with program health conditions and by non-compliers -- disappeared after 2.5 years, largely …

education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over time. It seeks to enhance effective and … Card on education and health. However, unlike traditional citizen report cards, it assembles objective information from …

on the quality of public health services. The program had a strong emphasis on organizing women, who also identified … health services as a development priority at baseline. Assessing the program at midline, the paper finds that the … mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of village-based health providers. The study detects …

-for-performance scheme that rewarded community health worker cooperatives for the utilization of five targeted maternal and child health … impact of the performance payments on coverage of the targeted services, attitudes and behaviors of community health workers …

In low- and middle-income countries, scaling essential health interventions to achieve health development targets is … constrained by the lack of skilled health professionals to deliver services. This paper takes a labor market approach to project … future health workforce demand based on an economic model that projects economic growth, demographics, and health coverage …