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Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the socioeconomic determinants of maternal iron supplementation and sufficient maternal iron supplementation as components of prenatal care. Micro-data having 25999 and 19764...
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While the first order effects of access to clean water and of personal hygiene and sanitation on health have been well documented, the effects of community hygiene and sanitation, along with personal hygiene and sanitation, have not been comprehensively studied. In this paper, incorporating the...
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Nearly nine million children under five years of age die annually. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of Under-5 mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths are caused by diarrhea. In this paper, we use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the...
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This paper investigates the role of demand-side incentives to mothers and supply-side incentives to community health … entitled socio-economically backward mothers with cash assistance if they chose to give birth at public health institutions …. By using variations across eligibility of mothers, and the differential implementation of ASHAs across low-focus and high …
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