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  Maternal and child mortality development goals: what can the transport sector do?

  World Bank, 2006

  This report published by the World Bank focuses on the role of transport and road infrastructure in the delivery of and access to maternal and child health services, and in the effectiveness of the health referral process in developing countries.
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  Progress towards the child mortality millennium development goal in urban sub-Saharan Africa: the dynamics of population growth, immunization, and access to clean water

  BMC Public Health, 2007

  This paper, published in BMC Public Health, highlights the effects of urban population growth and access to health and social services on progress in achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 – to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015.
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  Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

  The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Bangladesh creates policies regarding health and family planning.
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  CORE group

  The CORE Group, is an association of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), that promotes and improves the health and well-being of children and women in developing countries through
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  An evaluation of infant immunization in Africa: is a transformation in progress?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007

  This paper, in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, assesses the progress towards meeting the goals of the African Regional strategic Plan of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation between 2001 and 2005.
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  The impact of conflict on infant immunisation coverage in Afghanistan: a countrywide study 2000-2003

  International Journal of Health Geographics, BioMed Central, 2007

  This paper assesses the impact of conflict and resource availability on the provision of infant immunisation services. It evaluates the progress and changes in immunisation coverage in Afghanistan using data from 331 districts across 7 regions of Afghanistan between 2000 and 2003.
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  Global perspectives on the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents: patterns, prevention, and potential

  The Lancet, 2007

  This is the second in the series of six Lancet articles about adolescent health. The article discusses the patterns and prevalence of adolescents’ sexual behaviours and reproductive health outcomes, all of which show huge regional and country-level variation.
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  Does money matter? The effect of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007

  This paper examines how a government-run cash transfer program targeted to poor mothers in rural Ecuador influenced the health and development of their children aged 3 to 7. Unlike some other transfer programs, receipt of the cash transfers was not conditioned on specific parental actions, such as taking children to health clinics or sending them to school.
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  Housing, health and happiness

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007

  What is the causal impact of housing improvement programmes on health and welfare? This paper investigates the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health and adult happiness. The paper identifies several positive results, including: 
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  Health aid and infant mortality

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2007

  This IMF working paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Although there is little evidence that aid promotes economic growth, foreign aid is often credited with saving lives by providing vaccines, eradicating deadly diseases and improving medicinal services. 

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