Despite improvements in public health in recent decades, levels of infant and child mortality remain unacceptably high, particularly in developing countries where primary healthcare services including antenatal care services are not universally available. However, even though there is a growing...

This paper uses the data of Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2005, a nationally representative sample of 10,080 households in Bangladesh from January, 2005 to December, 2005, to investigate the determinants of illness, choice of health care provider and household out-of-pocket health care...

The empirical literature detailing the mechanisms underlying schooling and earnings is limited in the context of Nepal, a country characterized by low enrollment rates and education levels, high illiteracy and a large disparity between male and female education. This paper employed standard...

Maternal and child health issues continue to be at the forefront of national and global health policies. Notwithstanding the national and global policy initiatives, maternal mortality continues to be on the ascendancy in developing countries. This paper investigates the determinants of...

The basic focus of this paper is to see how the households try to make their consumption level smooth and for that purpose what sorts of strategies are undertaken. In fact, the data analysis of the paper is based on the flood affected rural households of Bangladesh during 1998-1999. So the paper...

Under-five child malnutrition is an important phenomenon in developing countries like Bangladesh. Historically certain privileged groups have been benefited by the improvements in economic conditions inflicting health care inequality among the population. This study attempts to examine the...

Under-5 mortality (U5M) is one of the central public health issues in many developing countries like Bangladesh. The main purpose of this study is to recognize determinants of U5M and to assess the predictive power of the fitted model. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression model is...

Infants play vital roles for a nation’s present and future progress. Hence ensuring their healthy growth and development should be the main concern of any country. Infant mortality remains unacceptable and disproportionally larger in the multiple birth groups in many developing countries like...