This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis … health insurance coverage mitigated disease transmission among the broader population. …

This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential … on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … forecasts for Brazil suggests a possible increase of 305 neonatal deaths annually and, for families in the Primary Care Program …

program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall …, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications. …