Organization of the United Nations, the prevalence of underweight in children under the age of five as compiled by the World Health … three dimensions of hunger: insufficient availability of food, shortfalls in the nutritional status of children, and child …

in recent times, but for the middle-aged and the elderly, the past was seen as a better time in terms of health and … survival. The decline in adult health is attributed to environmental deterioration and lifestyle changes associated with …

This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. The main mechanism is based on optimal … dimensions of health, which themselves are endogenously determined in the process of development. By disentangling the distinct … roles that different dimensions of health, such as adult longevity, child mortality, and overall healthiness, play for …

This paper aims to test the relationship between health and per capita economic growth. Two main causalities were … discussed: if health would directly increase labor productivity or if it would, indirectly, intensify the positive effect of … education on growth. A better health status could decrease the depreciation of human capital, proxied by education. We run two …

, hunger, gender equality, education, child mortality, health, and water. Overall, we find evidence of dramatic achievements by …

of a country since children (infants), more than any other age-group of a population, depend heavily on the socioeconomic … programmes to reduce infant mortality had been guided by health professionals who were convinced that available low …

implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to … health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …