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birth on the need to use adequate Antenatal care for each pregnancy, since these mothers tend to use less antenatal care for … care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … this improves their use of maternal health services. Policy should also target mothers who have had the experience of child …
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Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether … abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate … that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-40%, with 113 non-white maternal deaths …
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the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing …
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clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In-state abortions fell 20% and births rose 3% in counties … that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 miles. Births increased 1% and contraceptive purchases rose 8% in … services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in …
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sustainability of reform efforts as well as progress towards more just and inclusive energy transitions. This study examines the … research explores household energy consumption patterns, estimating budget, own-price, and cross-price elasticities for petrol … bound, and upper bound poverty line households, effectively counteract some of the welfare losses, indicating the …
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The social changes in Poland over the last two decades have had an impact on many dimensions of life, including on important elements of human capital, such as health and functional and instrumental daily activities. This article contains an overview of the available data and indicators on...
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--the lack of a policy framework to develop the healthcare services sector in a globalized environment, the lack of human …
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. -- crisis ; infant mortality ; maternal mortality ; low birth weight ; poverty ; Argentina … aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant … incidence of low birth weight and school enrollment for teenagers, with worsening results associated with GDP declines …
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aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant … incidence of low birth weight and school enrollment for teenagers, with worsening results associated with GDP declines. …
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The UK finds itself in an unfortunate economic and fiscal bind. Living standards have endured an unprecedentedly long stagnation. Taxes are at record levels for the UK (though remain lowto-middling by European standards). Public services are showing visible signs of strain and are, in many...
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