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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…

As an acknowledgment of the critical role of education in realizing other development targets, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of the United Nations include education in a framework of development targets. The MDG targets for education include achieving universal primary …

The United Nations Millennium Summit was held in September 2000 and established eight world goals to be achieved by 2015. The second of these goals resolved that all boys and girls throughout the world will be allowed to receive a primary education through the fifth grade. This …

Only six years away from the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015, the international aid community is scrambling to fulfill the lofty obligations for development set by the United Nations Millennium Declaration in 2001. With the World Health Organization beset by e…

Background GDP per capita is arguably the single most predictive determinant of health at the national level, yet such a measure fails to capture the complexity of wealth (and thus health) distribution within a population. Health at the individual level has been shown to be asso…