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Searching with a thematic focus on Health, Health and nutrition in Uganda

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  'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda.
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  Health as an informational good: the determinants of child nutrition and mortality during political and economic recovery in Uganda

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The paper uses data from the 1992 Integrated Household Survey to model the determinants of child mortality and malnutrition. Parental beliefs about health have a strong and very highly significant influence on child mortality. Education and income also play a role, partly coming through its effect on beliefs, but early primary education seems to have little effect.
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  Increasing the nutritional impacts of agricultural interventions

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 1999

  Study provides information on program and policy options. The findings and recommendations are based on an extensive review of the literature as well as interviews with researchers, USAID managers and other development and donor organizations.
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  Potential uses of food aid to support HIV/AIDS mitigation activities in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000

  This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS.

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