Improving maternal and child health outcomes is a major development objective. Targets related to these outcomes were … Sustainable Development Goals (under Goal 3 health targets). Turkey is among the few successful middle-income countries that have … significantly reduced the under-5 mortality rate below the MDG 2015 target levels. This study analyses improved demand-side (health …

Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the … sufficient iron supplementation respectively has been taken from Indian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) 2005-6. To estimate … into individual characteristics of the woman, household characteristics, health-related characteristics, community …

"This book addresses the main issues facing women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. It also …

framework is to estimate the infant health production function from a behavioral model in which health inputs are themselves ….1 for whites, and 4.8 for pooled blacks and whites sample. Black mothers who seek prenatal care one month earlier give birth … to babies 124 grams more in birth weight while for white mothers the corresponding number is about 99 grams. The policy …

We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … Development Facility of the United Nations Development Programme is successful in improving maternal health-care utilization … health-care utilization. The effectiveness of the programme would have been greater in the absence of conflict, although the …

.Using data on up to approximately 24,000 French children from the Health, Health Care and Insurance Surveys, we apply econometric … health problems for low-income children. In addition, income is strongly correlated with anthropometric characteristics. The … to health care services for children from low-income families may not be enough to decrease social health inequalities in …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment …Durch Malaria sterben täglich etwa 1500 Kinder. In dem vorliegenden Artikel werden DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys … practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to …