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  Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for child health in developing countries

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This article, published in the British Medical Journal, examines the costs and effectiveness of selected child health interventions: case management of pneumonia; oral rehydration therapy; supplementation or fortification of staple foods with vitamin A or zinc; provision of supplementary food with counselling on nutrition; and immunisation against measles.
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  Dynamic contextual analysis: a context specific approach to understanding barriers to, and opportunities for, change (second edition)

  Safe Passages to Adulthood, 2006

  This booklet, published by Safe Passages to Adulthood, explains how an approach called dynamic contextual analysis (DCA) can be used to understand the importance of political, socio-economic, community, interpersonal, and programmatic context on young people’s sexual and reproductive health.
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  Atlas child and adolescent mental health resources: global concerns: implications for the future

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This document presents the findings of a WHO project on existing services and resources for adolescents who confront issues of mental health. Child and adolescent mental health is receiving heightened attention due to increasing awareness of unfortunate consequences of poor mental health among youth and the advances being made in diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.
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  Iraq Health Update

  Medact, 2006

  This update reviews the Iraq health situation since 2005. The paper highlights the following health related consequences of the war: The author argues that the disastrous security situation has paralysed the Iraqi health sector.
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  Child protection: a handbook for parliamentarians

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2004

  This handbook, published by UNICEF, examines the right of children to protection from violence, abuse, and exploitation, and looks at the role that national parliaments and their members can play in fulfilling this right.
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  Integration of care and education: the challenge in Brazil

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006

  The Brazilian government introduced a policy to integrate the administrative responsibility for day care centres for 0-3 year-olds and preschools for 4-6 year-olds into the education sector in 1996. But even after nine years, the two services are still far from being integrated.This Policy Briefing paper from UNESCO provides a summary of an interview with Dr.
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  Overview and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

  The Lancet, 2006

  This short article in The Lancet provides a summary of a 3-year study on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) undertaken by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.The study, which encompasses 62 countries from all parts of the world, is largely based on the reports of States Parties to the CRC Committee and the Committee's concluding comments on them.
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  The right to count

  The Lancet, 2004

  This case report, published in the Lancet, examines the issue of under-reporting of maternal deaths in developing countries, and considers the implications for the UN Millennium Goal target of reduction maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015. It reports that, even in several developed countries, under-reporting of maternal deaths ranges from 17 per cent to 63 per cent.
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  Maternal mortality at the end of a decade: signs of progress?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2001

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines recent trends in two indicators of maternal mortality: the percentage of births attended by a skilled health care worker, and rates of caesarean delivery. It reveals that globally, modest improvements in coverage of skilled care occurred, with an average increase of 1.7 per cent per year during 1989-99.
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  Maternal social capital and child health in Vietnam

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This paper is part of a series of working papers published by the Young Lives project, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. This project, based in Vietnam explores the relationship between maternal social capital and child well-being.

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