Infants and Children | Health and Well-being

INFANTS AND CHILDREN
Health and Well-being

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2008
Teerawichitchainan, Bussarawan and James F. Phillips. "Ethnic differentials in parental health seeking for childhood illness in Vietnam," Social Science and Medicine
66(5): 1118–1130. (abstract) Also issued as Poverty, Gender, and Youth Working Paper no. 3. New York: Population Council, 2007. (abstract) (PDF)

2007
"Assessing the equitable distribution of essential medicines for rural maternal and child health care: Baseline report, Nkwanta District, Ghana," GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) Progress Report, June. Accra: Population Council. (PDF)

Binka, Fred N., Ayaga A. Bawah, James F. Phillips, Abraham Hodgson, Martin Adjuik, and Bruce MacLeod. “Rapid achievement of the child survival millennium development goal: Evidence from the Navrongo experiment in northern Ghana,” Tropical Medicine and International Health 12(5): 578–593. (abstract)

Sarna, Avina, Jaleel Ahmad, Glory Alexander, Vaishali Sharma Mahendra, Ashok Rau, Arjun Singh, and Naomi Rutenberg. "Exploring the barriers to accessing care and treatment for HIV-infected children in India: A diagnostic study," Update. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF)

"Spotlight on child malnutrition," GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) Progress Report, Fall. Accra: Population Council. (PDF)

2006
Bawah, Ayaga A., James F. Phillips, Martin Adjuik, Maya Vaughan-Smith, Bruce MacLeod, and Fred N. Binka. "The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: Evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 218. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

Boris, Neil W., Tonya R. Thurman, Leslie Snider, Erin Spencer, and Lisanne Brown. “Infants and young children living in youth-headed households in Rwanda: Implications of emerging data,” Infant Mental Health Journal 27(6): 584–602. (abstract)

Phillips, James F., Ayaga A. Bawah, and Fred N. Binka. "Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: The Navrongo experiment in Ghana," Bulletin of the World Health Organization 84(12): 949–955. (abstract) Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 208. New York: Population Council, 2005. (abstract) (PDF)

RamaRao, Saumya, John Townsend, and Ian Askew. "Correlates of inter-birth intervals: Implications of optimal birth spacing strategies in Mozambique,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Thurman, Tonya R., Leslie Snider, Neil Boris, Edward Kalisa, Eleazer Nkunda Mugarira, Joseph Ntaganira, and Lisanne Brown. “Psychosocial support and marginalization of youth-headed households in Rwanda,” AIDS Care 18(3): 220–229.* (abstract)

2005
"An MDG that can be met," Momentum, December. New York: Population Council. (full text)

Brown, Lisanne, Tonya R. Thurman, and Leslie Snider. “Strengthening the psychosocial well-being of youth-headed households in Rwanda: Baseline findings from an intervention trial,” Horizons Research Update. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Ethical issues in program design and research: Rwanda study tackles ethical dilemmas," Horizons Report, June. Washington, DC: Population Council. (Contact horizons@popcouncil.org for a copy)

Hutchinson, Sherry. "On their own: Strengthening youth-headed households in Rwanda," Horizons Report, June. Washington, DC: Population Council. (Contact horizons@popcouncil.org for a copy)

Pence, Brian Wells, Philomena Nyarko, James F. Phillips, and Cornelius Debpuur. "The effect of community nurses and health volunteers on child mortality: The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 200. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

2004
“Investigating childbirth practices in an Egyptian hospital,” Population Council Annual Report 2003. New York: Population Council. (full text)

“Self-tutoring for mothers-to-be,” Momentum, June. New York: Population Council. (full text)

2003
Center for Development in Primary Health Care, Al Kuds University. “Improving postpartum care among low parity mothers in Palestine,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Focus on newborn survival needed in rural Pakistan," Population Briefs 9(2): 3. New York: Population Council. (full text)

2002
Fikree, Fariyal F., Syed Iqbal Azam, and Heinz W. Berendes. "Time to focus child survival programmes on the newborn: Assessment of levels and causes of infant mortality in rural Pakistan," Bulletin of the World Health Organization 80(4): 271–276.(offsite abstract) (offsite PDF)

Using Operations Research to Strengthen Programmes for Encouraging Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting: Report of the Consultative Meeting on Methodological Issues for FGC Research. Washington DC: Population Council. (PDF)

2001
"Immunization benefit for child survival confirmed," Population Briefs 7(3): 2. New York: Population Council. (full text)

Nyarko, Philomena, Brian Pence, and Cornelius Debpuur. “Immunization status and child survival in rural Ghana,” Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 147. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

"Parents' education strongly linked to child survival," Population Briefs 7(4): 3. New York: Population Council. (full text)

2000
Durrant, Valerie L. and Zeba A. Sathar. "Greater investments in children through women’s empowerment: A key to demographic change in Pakistan?" Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 137. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

1998
Brockerhoff, Martin and Paul Hewett. "Ethnicity and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 107. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

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