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Health education for mothers in developing countries: with special emphasis on the impact of health education interventions on health outcomes during the perinatal period and early infancy.
Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999The working paper had two objectives: (1) To review concisely key issues in the definition, design and evaluation of health education interventions especially with regards to mother and child health (2) To present an annotated bibliography of studies drawn from a literature reviewAlso available in Word format: http://194.82.244.65/acroread/bolam.docDocumentThe User-Service Interface in Disability Programmes in Low Income Countries: the Negotiation of Values
Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999Since the rise of the primary care movement in the 1970's the old model of institutional rehabilitation for disabled children has been replaced by a community-based approach. The practice of community-based approaches to disability has been more patchy than the principles guiding it. In this working paper Chris Leather reviews the historical aspects of community-based rehabilitation programmes.DocumentDeterminants of educational achievement and attainment in Africa: findings from nine case studies
Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1997This paper presents an overview and discussion of nine studies that attempt to explain educational achievement, attainment, and participation in different African countries. Available information on school, household, child, and community characteristics are explored for this purpose.DocumentEducating Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa: USAID's Approach and Lessons for Donors
Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1997For the past ten years USAID, other donors, and their African development partners have focused on basic education as one of the key building blocks for development. USAID's Africa Bureau has especially sought to assure that girls, too, benefit from the provision of an equitable, efficient, and high-quality education.DocumentExporting to the Republic of South Africa: an overview
International Trade Centre, 1997The potential for intra-African trade is considerable and exceeds several times the current low levels of trade among African countries.DocumentTrading Opportunitites in Southern Africa: a statistical analysis
International Trade Centre, 1997This paper aims at identifying those sectors and product groups which have the greatest potential for imports into SACU from the other members of SADC: Angola, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.DocumentUNICEF statistical tables on child / social welfare
United Nations Children's Fund, 1999Country level statistical data on major child welfare issues, including life expectancy, crude birth and death rates, infant mortality rates, child growth rates, ORT usage, maternal mortality, fertility rate, GNP, education (enrollment rates, literacy, attendance), access to drinking waterDocumentTrafficking and prostitution: the growing exploitation of migrant women from central and Eastern Europe
International Organization for Migration, 1995The trafficking of women from East to West is increasing rapidly. This form of exploitation and abuse of human rights is no longer confined to women from developing countries. Increasingly women from Central and Eastern European countries are entering Western Europe where they are forced or trapped into prostitution.DocumentIndonesian Family Life Surveys (IFLS)
RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999The Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) is a household and community-facility survey conducted in Indonesia in 1993 by Lembaga Demografi of the University of Indonesia, and RAND. The IFLS was conducted in 13 provinces, encompassing about 83 percent of the Indonesian population and much of its heterogeneity.Pages