Creating Opportunities for Rural Youth: 2019 Rural Development Report

This report from the World Health Organization explore the current status, strengths, and challenges of increasing access and coverage of essential child health interventions through the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI). Since the mid-1990s, IMCI has promoted the evidence on effective interventions, delivery approaches, and technologies to achieve the goal of ending preventable newborn and child mortality. In particular, this report examines global progress on three IMCI components: improving health worker skills, strengthening health…

This guide from the Rural Health Information Hub summarizes the obstacles and challenges rural residents face in relation to their social determinants of health—the circumstances in which they are born, grow up, work, and age that are shaped by social, economic, and political forces. The guide is organized as a list of 18 frequently asked questions that address the impact of rural differences related to specific social determinants of health, including housing, employment, poverty, food…

This case describes Mexico’s Oportunidades program (formerly called Progresa) that provides a range of interventions in education, health and nutrition to rural poor families via a conditional cash grants program. Lowered rates of illness and malnutrition and increased enrollment have been attributed to this program. This case study is part of Millions Saved, a collection of case studies produced by the Center for Global Development that describes successful examples of large-scale efforts to improve health…