pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …, understanding the relationship between temperature and pregnancy-related outcomes is far from perfect. Importantly, the potential …

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989 …, suggesting that avoiding Ramadan exposure during pregnancy is costly or the long-term effects of fasting unknown. …

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 …

introductory graduate courses in agriculture, food, and nutrition policy. The book covers the standard diagrams taught in … Professor at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy with a secondary appointment in the Department … in the Department of Global Health with a secondary appointment in the Business and Economics Department. She is also …

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 …

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 …