A published paper by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Kevin Croke, PhD, and his colleagues demonstrates that it’s possible to improve and streamline data collection on trauma in a developing country.
Maternal health literacy linked to child nutrition in India
According to a study published in The Journal of Nutrition, Harvard Pop Center faculty member SV Subramanian, PhD, and colleagues have found that children in India with mothers who were better able to understand, assess and apply maternal health-related information from health promotional materials were half as likely to suffer from several different forms of undernutrition. The findings suggest that interventions targeting maternal literacy could be an effective way to…
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Urbanization and Child Mortality
Pop Center faculty members, Gunther Fink and Kenneth Hill, examine the effects of increased urbanization on child mortality in developing countries in the Harvard School of Public Health study: “Urbanization and Child Mortality – Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys.”