This dissertation explores whether a mass media campaign, comprised of two television spots promoting exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), was successful in changing EBF behavior when implemented alone and when implemented in conjunction with other media materials, the training of service providers, and the establishment of a franchise network of infant and young child feeding counseling centers. The...

BACKGROUND Across the developing world health care services are most often delivered in the private sector and social franchising has emerged, over the past decade, as an increasingly popular method of private sector health care delivery. Social franchising aims to strengthen business practices through economies of scale: branding clinics and purchasing drugs in bulk at wholesale prices. While ...

We use evidence from the Second Reform Act, introduced in the United Kingdom in 1867, to analyze the impact on electoral outcomes of extending the vote to the unskilled urban population. By exploiting the sharp change in the electorate caused by franchise extension, we separate the effect of reform from that of underlying constituency level traits correlated with the voting population. Although...

Project Title: Strategies to combat MultiDrug Resistance (MDR) in human pathogenic Candida species Swiss Principal Investigator(s): Dominique Sanglard Institute of Microbiology CHUV University of Lausanne and University Hospital Center Bugnon 48 CH-1011 Lausanne Project Start: March 1, 2009 Project Duration: 24 months (extended for one year) Indian Principal Investigator (s): Rajendra Prasad Ja...