deaths are likely to be ineffective. In the case of maternal mortality, staff of the Center for Population and Family Health … (CPFH) at the Columbia University School of Public Health and of the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) developed a set … complications, which were formally issued in 1997 by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the United Nations Population …

right-to-health-related obligations towards the people of Uganda. This country case study explores some of the key issues … raised when assessing national and international right-to-health-related obligations. We argue that to comply with their …’ that the Government of Uganda needs to increase recurrent expenditure for health – which is crucial to addressing maternal …

on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany … analysed self-rated general health as well as the self-reported absence and prevalence of specific diseases which are directly …-up in order to control for selection effects to the health outcome. The analysis was separated by sex to account for gender …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …