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Maternal education and child survival in developing countries: the search for pathways of influence.
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Assessment of the various mechanisms or intervening factors which could explain how mother's education influences the health and survivorship of her children is made and the relevance of such studies for formulation of health and educational policies is stressed.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 822 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reproductive health & Socioeconomic status.read more
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
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Too far to walk : maternal mortality in context
Sereen Thaddeus,Deborah Maine +1 more
TL;DR: Findings from a broad body of research on the factors that delay the decision to seek care are presented and examples of efforts to reduce maternal deaths are presented, with an emphasis on strategies to mobilize and adapt existing resources.
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Human resources: empirical modeling of household and family decisions.
John Strauss,Duncan Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: A literature review focusing on education and health in its examination of the role that households and families play in choosing how to invest the human capital of their members is presented in this paper.
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International Zinc Nutrition Consultative Group (IZiNCG) technical document #1. Assessment of the risk of zinc deficiency in populations and options for its control.
Kenneth H. Brown,Juan A Rivera,Zulfiqar A. Bhutta,Rosalind S Gibson,Janet C King,Bo Lönnerdal,Marie T. Ruel,Brittmarie Sandtröm,Emorn Wasantwisut,Christine Hotz +9 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses zinc Nutrition, which focuses on dietary requirements and recommended intakes for zinc, and causes of zinc deficiency and groups at high risk.
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Overcoming barriers to health service access: influencing the demand side.
Tim Ensor,Stephanie Cooper +1 more
TL;DR: Demand barriers present in low- and middle-income countries and evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to overcome these obstacles are reviewed, suggesting that while barriers are plentiful, there is a dearth of evidence on ways to reduce them.
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On kinship structure, female autonomy, and demographic behavior in India.
Tim Dyson,Mick Moore +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main states of India are broadly grouped into two demographic regimes, i.e., northern kinship/low female autonomy and southern kinship /high female autonomy, and the analysis suggests that family social status is probably the most important element in comprehending Indias demographic situation.
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An Analytical Framework for the Study of Child Survival in Developing Countries
W. Henry Mosley,Lincoln C. Chen +1 more
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Education as a factor in mortality decline: an examination of Nigerian data
TL;DR: It is concluded that womens education in societies like that of the Yoruba in Nigeria can produce profound changes in family structure and relationships which in turn may influence both mortality and fertility levels.
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Selective Discrimination against Female Children in Rural Punjab, India
TL;DR: Meeting: Workshop on Differential Female Mortality and Health Care in South Asia, Jan. 1987, Dhaka, BD.
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Routes to low mortality in poor countries.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how certain populations have achieved low mortality and whether these methods might be utilized by other poor populations and examined relative to income levels for Third World countries classified as either superior health achievers or poor health achiever; other variables examined are population density family planning use religion and educational level.
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