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Malnutrition and Mortality in Sub Saharan Africa and India

A comparative analysis of the structure and dynamics of child mortality and malnutrition in Sub Saharan Africa.

The Potential of Provider-Initiated Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing at Health Care Settings in Thailand

This study aims to assess the value, feasibility and acceptability of providing provider-initiated HIV voluntary counseling, testing, and referral in district hospitals in Thailand, using a cluster-randomization trial with pre-post test design, as compared to voluntary HIV testing.

Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs: An Empirical Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching

This paper examines whether Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme has accomplished its goal by contrasting the maternal health outcomes of members and non-members who experienced a pregnancy in the four years preceding the date of survey, controlling for their observable characteristics via matching techniques.

Impact of Performance Based Financing in Rwanda: Health Facility Level Analysis

Rwanda implemented performance-based financing (PBF) at the national scale in 2006 for maternal and child health care services. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of the PBF intervention on the maternal and child health service in Rwanda.

An Evaluation of a Safe Motherhood Hospital Program

This study evaluates whether the Safe Motherhood Hospital program of Thailand has an impact on maternal mortality and the cost of child delivery, using the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique.

Impact Evaluation of the Ethiopian Health Services Extension Program

This study examines the impact of the program on health status indicators of mothers and children as these are the primary target beneficiaries of the program in Ethiopia's Health Services Extension Program of 2003.

Social Security Health Insurance for the Informal Sector in Nicaragua: A Randomized Evaluation

This paper evaluates a program in Managua, Nicaragua that randomized incentives to obtain health insurance, enabling an estimation of the causal effects of having insurance among informal sector workers who were previously uninsured.

An Impact Evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Program in China

The Chinese government initiated the national Safe Motherhood (SM) Program in 2000. The study aims to reduce maternal mortality rates (MMR) through the enhancement of maternal and child health (MCH) care. The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of the program.

Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine

This study investigates the mechanisms through which reductions in infant and maternal mortality and morbidity take place in Ukraine, by estimating the impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project (MIHP) on prenatal care use, intermediate health outcomes, and mortality components.

Family Planning and Rural Fertility Decline in Iran: A Study in Program Evaluation

This paper presents an evaluation of the impact of Iran’s rural family planning program – launched in response to the revolutionary government’s pro-natal policies in 1989 – on rural fertility.

Evaluating the Impact of Micro-Franchising the Distribution of Anti-Malarial Drugs in Kenya on Malaria Mortality and Morbidity

This study examines a Kenyan government program that increases access to effective anti-malaria drugs to the rural poor to improve malaria morbidity and mortality.

The Short-Term Impacts of a CCT Program for Schooling on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women

This paper aims to provide new causal evidence on the effects of a CCT program (with only school attendance used as a condition to receive the transfers) on the sexual behavior of the young female beneficiaries of the program in Malawi.

Impact Evaluation of India’s ‘Yeshasvini’ Community-Based Health Insurance Program

This study examines evidence on the impact of being insured in India – through Yeshasvini community health financing program –on healthcare utilization, financial protection, treatment outcomes and economic well-being.

Do HIV-AIDS Teacher Training Programs Work in Africa? Evidence from the Cameroon

Are teachers who have benefited from HIV-AIDS teacher training programs more likely to significantly affect the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of their students, when compared to teachers who have not? This study assesses the impact of a typical HIV-AIDS teacher training program in Cameroon on student knowledge, attitudes and behavior.

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil’s Family Health Program

This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil’s Family Health Program. Direct impacts are related to the effects of the program on health outcomes. Indirect impacts refer to the effects of the program, through changes in health, on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility.

Impact Evaluation of a Young Medical Volunteers Project for Vietnam Rural Mountains

The study evaluates the health impacts of the volunteer intervention using quasi-experimental design and cluster analysis, and by estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using propensity score matching methods with two-stage sample data collection.

An Evaluation of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs

This study uses propensity score matching to evaluate the outcomes of the Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on maternal and child health in Ghana.

Retrospective Analysis of School-Based Malaria Treatment Programme and Impact on Health and Education Outcomes in Mangochi District, Malawi

This paper sought to evaluate the impact of the malaria treatment program in the Mangochi district, on both school and health outcomes.

Managing Healthcare Provision and Health Outcomes through Local Governance

The study singles out factors such as the quality of healthcare providers, the impact of local governance on healthcare and health satisfaction,

Does Health Matter for Inequality in Transition Countries: The Case of Ukraine

This study is an empirical analysis of the influence of health on income inequality and poverty in Ukraine

Urban Externalities in the Small Developing Countries of Asia and Latin America: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Squatter Settlements in Nepal (Kathmandu) and Ecuador (Quito)

Rapid urbanization has led to a spurt in the number of squatter settlements.

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