Neeru Gupta

TL;DR: Evidence is provided from several countries showing that rapid progress is possible and that focused and targeted interventions can reduce inequities related to socioeconomic status and sex and much more can and should be done to address maternal and newborn health and improve coverage of interventions related to family planning, care around childbirth, and case management of childhood illnesses.

TL;DR: The results suggest that officially reported DTP3 coverage is higher than that reported from household surveys, and the size of the difference increases with the rate of reported Coverage, as well as time-trend analysis.

TL;DR: While secondary schooling was associated with lower probability of early sex among girls in all countries, the relationship was often in the opposite direction among boys, and Influences of other sociodemographic and community status variables were generally less important.

TL;DR: This assessment offered the first global baseline in terms of supply of and need for human resources for health-related rehabilitation services, as a basis for strategy development of the workforce in physical and rehabilitation medicine, to catalyze further research that can be translated into evidence to supporthuman resources for rehabilitation policy and practice.

TL;DR: An integrated approach for developing an evidence base on human resources for health (HRH) to support decision-making is presented, drawing on a framework for health systems performance assessment.