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  Women's health groups to improve perinatal care in rural Nepal

  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2005

  This article, published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, examines the development of women’s groups in rural Nepal as a way of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. It reports that the groups developed varied strategies to tackle problems of maternal and newborn care: establishing mother and child health funds, producing clean home delivery kits, and operating stretcher schemes.
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  Accelerating progress towards achieving the MDG to improve maternal health: a collection of promising approaches

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2005

  This discussion paper, produced by the World Bank Health, Nutrition, and Population department, examines some approaches that have been used to improve maternal health around the world, drawing on field research and practice.
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  Who's got the power: transforming health systems for women and children 2005

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This report, produced by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Maternal Health and Child Health, outlines challenges in maternal and child health around the world, and considers key interventions to address these challenges, focusing on health systems.
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  The effects of birth spacing on infant and child mortality, pregnancy outcomes, and maternal morbidity and mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh

  Labour and Population Program, Rand, 2004

  This working paper, published by RAND, examines how the length of time between births affects the risk of illness or death of mothers and children. It finds that when there is an interval of less than three years between two births by the same mother, the risks of newborn and child mortality are significantly higher than for intervals of three to five years.
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  Strengthening the psychosocial well-being of youth-headed households in Rwanda: baseline findings from an intervention trial

  Population Council, USA, 2005

  For children in Rwanda, the combined effects of the 1994 genocide and the HIV and AIDS pandemic have been devastating, resulting in one of the world’s highest percentages of orphans among children 17 years or younger.
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  Helping women with HIV decide about breastfeeding: what family planning programs can do

  MAQWeb Global Health Technical Briefs, 2006

  This technical brief, published by MAQWeb, outlines some key facts about HIV and breastfeeding, and looks at how family planning programmes can help women with HIV weigh the various risks in deciding whether to breastfeed. It notes that a focus on HIV transmission through breastfeeding has tended to draw attention away from the risks to infant health of not breastfeeding.
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  Progress for children: a report card on nutrition

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2006

  Undernutrition contributes to the deaths of about 5.6 million children under five in the developing world each year.
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  Socioeconomic status and health in childhood: a comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children's health.
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  Analytic and strategic review paper: international perspectives on early child development

  Commission on Social Determinants of Health, WHO, 2005

  This paper, published by the World Health Organization Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, focuses on early child development and education (ECD) as a determinant of health. It describes three sets of factors that influence ECD. The first set, factors within the family, includes stimulation, support, and nurture.
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  How does progress towards the child mortality millennium development goal affect inequalities between the poorest and least poor?: analysis of demographic and health survey data

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This paper, published in the British Medical Journal, examines how inequality in the under-five mortality rates of the poorest and least poor groups changes as progress is made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in 22 countries of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia.

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