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  Impact of maternal and child health private expenditure on poverty and inequity: review of the literature with focus on evidence from Asia and the Pacific

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  Expenditures on healthcare in Asian and Pacific countries (APCs) are widely seen as financially burdensome to household budgets and contributing to impoverishment. This review examines the evidence on maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) care expenditures in APCs and looks into how and to what extent these expenditures exacerbate poverty. The paper finds that:
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  Impact of out-of-pocket expenditures on families and barriers to use of maternal and child health services in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  Limited progress has been made in the past decade in reducing the high levels of maternal and child deaths in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). This paper highlights the fact that Laotian women and children are inadequately covered by basic healthcare services.The paper finds that:
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  The impact of out-of-pocket expenditures on families and barriers to use of maternal and child health services in Timor-Leste

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  As a young nation, Timor-Leste has made considerable advances in rebuilding its health system, but overall utilisation of health services remains low by regional standards.
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  Impact of maternal and child health private: expenditure on poverty and inequity in Bangladesh

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  Bangladesh has made substantial progress since the 1970s in expanding the coverage of maternal healthcare services, yet maternal mortality remains high, as available but limited data suggest.
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  Pre-referral rectal artesunate: treatment of childhood malaria in the community

  World Health Organization, 2012

  This manual for trainers and community health workers (CHWs) concentrates specifically upon childhood malaria and its danger signs, clarifying the conditions for use of pre-referral treatment with rectal artesunate.Key messages include:
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  Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Programmes in Bangladesh Review of good practices and lessons learned

  BRAC Education Programme, 2007

  This review is based on secondary data on MNCH interventions, and face-to-face interviews with key informants from different organizations implementing MNCH programmes. Both published and unpublished materials for the last ten years were selected which include materials on relevant health systems and interventions in the public and private sectors.
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  Health Care Seeking Behavior for Safe Motherhood: Findings from Rural Bangladesh

  2012

  This study aims to explore women’s health care seeking behavior for safe motherhood in rural Bangladesh. As a significant finding, the study reports that 69.39 percent women receive healthcare services from village doctors (polli chikitshok), followed by 21.43 percent from drugstore salespersons, and 5.10 percent from kobiraj.
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  Newborn care practices by the mother / care givers’ and their knowledge about signs of sickness of neonates

  Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011

  Despite proven cost effective intervention, there has been little change in neonatal mortality. In Bangladesh neonatal mortality accounts for two third of infants death. About 90% deliveries take place in home and majority of neonatal death are taking place within 7 days of birth.
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  Poverty and postnatal depression: a systematic mapping of the evidence from low and lower middle income countries

  LSE Research Online, 2012

  There is no systematic assessment of how poverty or socio-economic status and postnatal depression (PND) might be related in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). The objective of this paper is to describe the extent of research in LLMICs that deals with the relationships between poverty and PND, including how poverty affects PND and how PND affects poverty.
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  Access to safe abortion: building choices for women living with HIV and AIDS

  Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2011

  In many areas of the world where HIV prevalence is high, rates of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion have also been shown to be high. Despite this, little research has focused on decisions about and experiences of women living with HIV with regard to terminating a pregnancy.

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