pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …

increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less … fertility by focusing on the UN intervention in Liberia. Combining DHS birth history data with information on road distance to … UN military compounds, we find that women living in the proximity of peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the …

This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility … theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise … in women's human capital, relative to men. The resulting rise in the opportunity cost of children leads to a subsequent …

peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the deployment period. Furthermore, peacekeeping improves child health and fosters …Armed conflict can shape reproductive behaviour as high child mortality and a lack of health services lead to higher … fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the …

Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health : an overview / Robert Black, Marleen Temmerman, and Neff Walker … -- The burden of reproductive ill health / Alex Ezeh, Abdhalah K. Ziraba, John Cleland, Akinrinota Bankole, anmd Claudia …-for-age / Gretchen Stevens, Mariel Finucane, and Christopher Paciorek -- Interventions to improve reproductive health / John Stover …

development. Too many women and children are still dying because they lack access to quality health care, especially in the least … extremely effective in getting high quality, essential health services to women and children. He remarks that empowering …Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, notes that we stand at a critical threshold for global health and …