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A review of external assistance and aid effectiveness for maternal and child health : challenges and opportunities
Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Aleem, Samia - 2013
This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190156
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Evaluation of the impact of the mother and infant health project in Ukraine
Nizalova, Olena; Vyshnya, Maria - 2009
-genital system complications, as well as late toxicosis. The analysis suggests that the effects are due to early attendance of … antenatal clinics, lower share of C-sections, and greater share of normal deliveries, and these effects are causal. Preliminary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923569
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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2016
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483902
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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from … parish records and aggregate data from annual reports of medical districts. We estimate short run program effects on maternal … was systematically larger among children born out of wedlock, who also exhibit higher baseline rates of infant mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406825
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Worth the Wait? The Effect of Early Term Birth on Maternal and Infant Health
Buckles, Kasey - 2016
attributed to changes in the demographic composition of mothers. We next exploit county-level variation in the timing of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985679
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Is high-tech care in a middle-income country worth it? : evidence from perinatal centres in Russia
Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Becker, Charles M. - In: The economics of transition 24 (2016) 4, pp. 585-620
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Competitive effects of scope of practice restrictions : public health or public harm?
Markowitz, Sara; Adams, E. Kathleen; Lewitt, Mary Jane; … - In: Journal of health economics 55 (2017), pp. 201-218
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Hospitals, maternal and infant health : impact of the opening of public hospitals in Mexico
Pastrana, Julio Alberto Ramos; Fajnzylber, Eduardo; … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014634227
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Maternity support and child health : unintended gendered effects
Kekre, Aishwarya; Mahajan, Kanika - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 51 (2023) 3, pp. 880-898
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469179
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Impact evaluation of the Human Resource for Health Deployment Program (HRHDP)
Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Opiniano, Gina A.; Tam, Zhandra C. - 2023
We assess the short-term impacts of the Doctors-to-the-Barrios (DTTB), a national physician deployment program in the Philippines that augments the supply of rural healthcare workers in underserved areas, on several health sector outcomes. Using regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
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