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  Children’s mobility in Ghana: An overview of methods and findings from the Ghana research study

  Society, Biology and Human Affairs, 2011

  This paper is part of a collection forming A Special Issue, which covers selected themes from a larger project on child mobility in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. The themes are those which individual members of the Ghana research team identified as of particular interest and on which they have reflected, drawing on material collected and analysed by the team as a whole.
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  A Moving Issue: Children and young people’s transport and mobility constraints in Africa

  International Forum for Rural Transport and Development, 2010

  Children and young people are rarely at the forefront of transport studies, despite the fact that their ability to access health and educational facilities is crucial to the achievement of internatioanl development goals.
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  Nutrition, information, and household behaviour experimental evidence from Malawi

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2014

  Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.
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  Self-reported drunkenness among adolescents in four sub-Saharan African countries: associations with adverse childhood experiences

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010

  Consumption of alcohol is associated with acute and chronic adverse health outcomes. There is a paucity of studies that explore the determinants of alcohol use among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, that examine the effects of adverse childhood experiences on alcohol use.
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  Children Malnutrition and Horizontal Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa:A Focus on Contrasting Domestic Trajectories

  United Nations Development Programme, 2012

  The positive trend observed in recent accelerated economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries represents a huge opportunity to foster sustainable development, This paper contributes to the literature by providing a more accurate and nuanced view on the progress made with regards to child malnutrition and inequalities across sub-saharan Africa.
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  Life skills education and reproductive health education: preliminary findings from the non-biomedical interventions into HIV and AIDS study

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2011

  According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), life skills are defined as the abilities for adaptive and positive behaviours that enable individuals to effectively deal with demands and challenges of everyday life (WHO, 1993).
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  Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Malawi: a synthesis of research evidence

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004

  Although the definition of adolescence varies across cultures and different studies use various age-groups, the common understanding of this concept is that it is a period in which children make the transition from childhood to adulthood. In Malawi, adolescence is typically defined to span the ages of 10 to 19.
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  Retrospective Analysis of School Based Malaria Treatment Programme and Impact on Health and Education Outcomes in Mangochi District, Malawi

  2010

  This paper presents the findings of a retrospective evaluation of a school-based malaria treatment programme implemented in Mangochi district in Malawi, where malaria accounts for 40 per cent of outpatient visits, and eighteen per cent of all hospital deaths. It is a major cause of anaemia in children under the age of 5 years.
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  Integrated community based maternal and new-born care learning programme

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008

  This report presents results of a field study of beliefs, behaviours and practices relating to maternal and newborn care in Malawi. The study was commissioned by the Ministry of Health in partnership with ACCESS/Malawi, and was conducted in the districts of Rumphi in the north, Nkhotakota in the centre, and Machinga in the south.
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  Low birth weight and fetal anaemia as risk factors for infant morbidity in rural Malawi

  Malawi Medical Journal, 2009

  In sub-Saharan Africa, infant morbidity and mortality rates are excessively high and reductions have not kept pace with expectations. Most available data indicate that diarrhoea, malaria and acute respiratory infections account for the majority of infant deaths.

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