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    Malaria and primary education: a cross-country analysis on repetition and completion rates

    2009
    Malaria ranks among the foremost public health and development issues facing tropical countries. This paper explores the link between P. falciparum malaria - most malaria morbidity and mortality is due to the malignant Plasmodium falciparum - and primary education in terms of school performance on the macroeconomic level.
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    Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN Sustainable Development Goal for health

    The Lancet, 2015
    The UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one for health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments.
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    Baluchistan Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    In the Baluchistan Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Fifty-two per cent of children have stunted growth, 73.5% of children and 60.7% of pregnant women have vitamin A deficiency.
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    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Forty-eight per cent of children have stunted growth 68.5% of children and 76.2% of pregnant women have vitamin A deficiency.
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    Punjab Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    In the Punjab Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Although Punjab as a whole has marginally less under-nutrition than other provinces, there are large disparities within the province.
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    Sindh Province report: nutrition political economy Pakistan

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    In the Sindh Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognised health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Forty per cent of children are underweight and 73% of children and 62% of pregnant women are anaemic.
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    Ebola and lessons for development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    As the Ebola crisis continues to unfold across West Africa and the international community belatedly responds, broader questions arise beyond the immediate challenges on the ground. These fundamentally challenge our understanding of ‘development’ as framed and practised in past decades.
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    Global governance and the limits of health security

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed the limits of the current approach to the global governance of infectious diseases, which mixes public health and security interests. International efforts to strengthen ‘health security’ quickly faltered when confronted with weak national health systems.
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    Return of the rebel: legacies of war and reconstruction in West Africa’s Ebola epidemic

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The spread of Ebola in West Africa centres on a region with a shared recent history of transnational civil war and internationally led post-conflict reconstruction efforts. This legacy of conflict and shortcomings in the reconstruction efforts are key to understanding how the virus has spread. The dynamics of warfare tied into and accentuated the state’s remoteness from many people.
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    Ebola, politics and ecology: beyond the ‘Outbreak Narrative'

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The origin of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been traced to the likely confluence of a virus, a bat, a two-year-old child and an underequipped rural health centre.

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