Eradication of polio outbreaks and tetanus neonatorum mortality, as well as lowering Egyptian infant mortality to less than 50 per 1000 live births, were specific goals to be achieved by the year 2000. National television immunization campaigns were launched to persuade mothers …
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The Third World Women’s Alliance (TWWA) emerged from the Black Power politics of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and two black women’s caucuses, the Black Women’s Liberation Committee and the Black Women’s Alliance. Formed in 1970, as a multiracial, socialist femin…
Infant mortality remains high in Bangladesh despite the remarkable success in the reduction of fertility in the past decade. Using Mosley and Chen's framework that illustrates various levels of determinants, this study examines how different levels of predictors interactively af…
This study shows Indonesia's health infrastructure and program efforts that focus on preventive care have a positive effect on improving child health outcomes. While household factors are significant in the demand for immunizations and reducing infant mortality, I find that regi…
This dissertation examines the short-run impacts of the Indonesian economic crises on different demographic outcomes of infants and women. In the first chapter, I examine whether the recent Indonesian financial crisis and the 1997/1998 drought and smoke haze crises had adverse e…
Perinatal regionalization (PR) is one of several solutions proposed to increase access to quality care and improve infant health outcomes. PR, a systems approach to coordinating healthcare services to ensure mothers and babies receive the care they need, has been recognized as a…
Objectives: This study examined prenatal care use among women in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the West African region. The primary analysis examined variations by individual and national measures of wealth and literacy. Secondary analyses examined whether adequate prenatal ca…
This dissertation uses the 1991 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey to better understand factors responsible for the sustained high infant mortality level in Pakistan. The dissertation is organized in the form of four independent studies that complement each other. The first st…
In the Sub-Saharan African countries, the infant mortality rate (IMR) remains high, especially in rural settings, where access to health services is still limited. In Nigeria, the IMR is reported to be 75 per 1,000 live births, but there is an uneven distribution of IMR among al…
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that examine how political economy and institutional factors influence development outcomes. In Chapter 1, I introduce each essay and argue that it is important to incorporate political economy and institutional considerations in…
Background: Researchers have demonstrated an association between income inequality and poor health outcomes over recent decades. We sought to understand the effects on health of both inequality and political armed conflict in Sudan, a northeast African country with seven interna…
I evaluate the hypothesis that higher autonomy of mothers is related to lower infant and child mortality in 47 communities across five south and southeast Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. I also consider the idea that the lower autonomy of Mu…
The research undertaken in this dissertation is the first attempt to examine pregnancy outcome differentials between the Israeli Jewish and non-Jewish populations, particularly Muslims, using Israel's linked birth-death files for 1980–1983 and 1990–1993, in a rigorous manner. Th…
Following the approach developed by Mosley and Chen to integrate both proximate and background determinants of infant and child mortality into a single framework, the research presented in this dissertation uses a 1986 Demographic and Health Survey to investigate the mechanisms …