than fish for child health. In addition, mothers' individual preferences for different animal-source foods, and the …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 …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and … importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother?s education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …

inequalities by household wealth status, mothers? education, and place of residence. It is based on four Demographic and Health …Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health … outcomes and health services coverage. The study examines how different groups have fared in this progress. It tracked 11 …

health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household … cash transfers. Giving cash to mothers does not lead to significantly better child health or education outcomes, and there … is evidence that money given to fathers improves young children's health, particularly during years of poor rainfall …

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 …

To diagnose and treat preventable threats to maternal and neonatal health in Sub-Saharan Africa, a policy focus has … been put on increasing coverage rates of targeted health services. Exploiting an experimental design, this study evaluates … antenatal and postnatal care, as well as for delivering in health facilities. The analysis finds that although health centers …

year old for those children whose mothers have no formal education. No significant association is found at 5 years of age … physical and human capital. This paper contributes to this literature, studying the association between mothers' access to … social capital via participation in community organizations and their children's nutritional status at 1 and 5 years. Using …

Vouchers stimulate demand for health care services by giving beneficiaries purchasing power. In turn, health facilities …? claims are reimbursed for providing beneficiaries with improved quality of health care. Efficient strategies to generate … Uganda away from inequity and toward universal health care. A reproductive health voucher program was implemented in 20 …

Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper …

children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households …