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Reducing Child Mortality and Malnutrition : Cross-Country Evidence on the Role of Growth and Social Indicators
Agrawal, Gaurav - 2019
In this paper, we examine whether the world is on track for meeting its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) regarding child mortality and malnutrition by investigating the cross-country panel data covering 86 developing countries between 2000 and 2016. We take the immediate-underlying-basic...
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The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality Among Natives
Aygün, Aysun - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health …, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting communities, and have a high incidence of health care utilization. Moreover …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824426
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Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality : An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh
Pal, Sarmistha - 2015
local health facilities (both traditional and modern) before and after the completion of the 'Women's Health Project' in …, especially among adolescent mothers after the completion of Women's Health Project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023777
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Paying patients for prenatal care : the effect of a small cash transfer on stillbirths and survival
Celhay, Pablo; Johannsen, Julia; Martinez, Sebastian; … - 2017
causal pathways of these effects are consistent with evidence of increased utilization of recommended health care services …%). Given the modest transfer amounts and considerable effects on health care utilization, we posit that final health outcomes … are likely driven by the health care conditionality, rather than an income effect. The intervention is highly cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715444
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Saving neonatal lives for a quarter
Valente, Christine; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; Puri, Mahesh C. - 2020
mortality by 56 percent for births predicted to take place at home. We find no effect for predicted health facility births …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293693
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Heat, humidity, and infant mortality in the developing world
Geruso, Michael; Spears, Dean - 2018
We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries by extracting birth histories from household surveys. Studying 53 developing countries that span five continents, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893618
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Maternal mortality and women's political participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2018
Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also leads to an 8-11 per cent increase in skilled birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873906
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Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
Geruso, Michael - 2018
We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries by extracting birth histories from household surveys. Studying 53 developing countries that span five continents, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912766
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Improving Empirical Estimation of Demographic Drivers : Fertility, Child Mortality & Malaria Ecology
McCord, Gordon C.; Conley, Dalton; Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2010
Much of Africa has yet to go through a demographic transition; this Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, rapid population growth and chronic extreme poverty has been attributed to factors including the status of women, pro-natalist policies, and poverty itself. Large uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193124
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Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality : An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh
Pal, Sarmistha - 2015
local health facilities before and after the completion of the ‘Women’s Health Project’ in 2005 (that enhanced emergency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139823