Global estimates on under-five mortality are produced on a yearly basis by the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, which includes UNICEF, WHO, The World Bank, UN Population Division, Harvard University and others. The Interagency group was created in 2004 to share data and ensure consistency among the estimates previously produced separately by UNICEF, WHO and The World Bank. Sin...

Access to communication technologies can be welfare enhancing. Hence, universal access to communication technologies has become a significant policy priority. In this paper, we investigate whether universal access to public telephone helps reduce child mortality. The Village Public Telephone (VPT) program in India was designed to expand public telephony to all villages in the country. We exploi...

This study presents quantitative, sociological models designed to account for cross-national variation in child mortality. We consider variables linked to five different theoretical perspectives that include the economic modernization, social modernization, political modernization, ecological-evolutionary, and dependency perspectives. The study is based on a cross-lagged effects regression anal...

In the fi nal paper of our 2008 Lancet Series on maternal and child undernutrition, Saul Morris and colleagues wrote that, “The international nutrition system—made up of international and donor organisations, academia, civil society, and the private sector—is fragmented and dysfunctional”. They concluded that, incredibly, no evidence base existed to prioritise actions to improve nutrition. And ...

BACKGROUND This study examined whether peer education based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour is a feasible method to share and disseminate nutrition and feeding information between mothers of babies and toddlers. METHODS The Peer Educator Nutrition Training (PeerENT) study was a feasibility study. Participants were recruited from an existing cohort of mothers of six month to two year olds. ...