Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Author: Ghana Demographic and Health Survey
Author: Ghana Demographic and Health Survey
Author: Understanding Women's Empowerment
Author: Sunita KishorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Control (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"This report examines the distribution and correlates of two different dimensions of the empowerment of currently married women age 15-49 in 23 developing countries"-- P. xv.
Ghana
Author: Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 1993
Author: Ghana. Statistical ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 1988
Author: Ghana. Statistical ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Trends in Demographic, Family Planning, and Health Indicators in Ghana, 1960-2008
Author: Complementary Feeding
Author: Robert E. BlackPublisher:
ISBN: 9783318059557
Category : Breastfeeding
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The complementary feeding period from 6 to 24 months is a crucial part of the first 1000 days of development. It marks the transition from exclusively milk-based liquid diet to the family diet and self-feeding. During this period, healthy food preferences and feeding practices are formed. The papers in this book were presented at the 87th Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop in Singapore, May 2016. Divided into three parts, they provide updates and recommendations, as well as insights into strategies and interventions, from all around the world. The first part addresses the role of complementary feeding in healthy development, focusing on food types and the timing of solid food introduction. The second part examines determinants of growth restriction and discusses effective interventions in infants and children in low- and middle-income countries. The last part focuses on development and 'programming' of behavioral and psychological aspects to prevent childhood obesity in high socioeconomic settings.
The effect of insurance enrollment on maternal and child health care utilization
Author: Gajate-Garrido, GisselePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Access to and use of health services are concerns in poor countries. If implemented correctly, health insurance may help solve these concerns. Due to selection and omitted variable bias, however, it is difficult to determine whether joining an insurance scheme improves medical care–seeking behaviors. This paper uses representative data for the whole country of Ghana and an instrumental variable approach to estimate the causal impact on healthcare use of participating in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. Idiosyncratic variations in membership rules at the district level provide exogenous variation in enrollment. The instrument is the existence of nonstandard verification methods to allow enrollment of children. Using the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey and a census of all district insurance offices, this paper finds that insurance membership increases the probability of (1) seeking higher-quality (but no greater quantity of) maternal services and (2) parents’ becoming more active users of child curative care. Instrumental variable estimates are larger than ordinary least squares ones, indicating that “compliers” have much higher returns to being insured than the average participant. Results are robust to several validity checks; this paper shows that the instrument is indeed idiosyncratic and proves that government officials did not establish less-cumbersome membership rules in districts with worse initial indicators.