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  • Steep 24% drop in city’s birth rates in Covid years
    HT Correspondent
    Hindustan Times
    2022

    The Covid-19 pandemic has not caused a baby boom, but quite the opposite in the city. Mumbai registered nearly 24% fewer births in 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic year of 2019—the second year of the country's second most populous city recording a significant drop in birth registrations.

  • Baseline Study for ‘Build it Better’ Project in Jharkhand: Final Report.
    Ashwini Chandak, Kaustuv Mukhopadhyay
    Save the Children
    2021

    Save the Children has collaborated with NITI Aayog and Herbalife to support two of the most affected Aspirational Districts (West Singhbhum and Gumla) in Jharkhand to i

  • Why Did Maternal Mortality Decline in Matlab?
    Deborah Maine, Murat Z. Akalin, Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty, Andres de Francisco
    Studies in Family Planning
    1996

    In 1991, an article on the Maternity Care Program in Matlab, Bangladesh, reported a substantial decline in direct obstetric deaths in the intervention area, but not in the control area. The decline was attributed primarily to the posting of midwives at the village level.