This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both … administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at … the 2007 fee exemption policy as a natural experiment. In an era where UHC and health equity are at the center of the post …

We study the impact of a Canadian prenatal nutrition program on child health at birth. The objective of the "oeuf …

This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in …

This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in …

clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions … the reform, reproductive-health and family-planning services have been covered under the FMP. To establish causality, we …

registry data, we examine the probability of live birth, indicators of health at birth, and the probability of death in the … first year of life. We perform a difference-in-differences estimation and show that the smoking ban has improved health at … that the ban was more beneficial for newborns of parents with low educational attainment and with lower fetal health …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico … observe small or null impacts on women's health from increasing sanctions on illegal abortion. We find some evidence to …

health burdens. Ethical principles of public health are distinguishable from principles applied in modern bioethics … pubic health ethics applies at the population-based or macroethical level. Resolution of issues, for instance of consent to … healthcare interventions and preservation of privacy, is different from public health practice in clinical medicine. Public …