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Item Restricted Who matters most? an analysis of the antenatal care provider towards birth weight(2011-10) Carreon, Jacqui; Neri, Jhennie; Diokno, Benjamin E.Low birth weight is defined as a weight of less than 2500 g irrespective of gestational age. It is one of the top five causes of infant mortality in the country. This paper aims to know the significance of antenatal care providers towards child's birth weight and to identify other risk- factors. Using a cross-sectional data from the National Demographic and Health Survey of2008, the results indicate that antenatal care provider (i.e doctors, midwife, hilot) is not a significant determinant of low birth weight as well as the timing of the first antenatal check-up. But an increase in the number of antenatal visits decreases the odds of a child being born small. Furthermore the results also show the significance of other factors such as age at birth, parity, birth interval and the mother's education. Maternal smoking and source of safe water are found to be insignificant predictor of infant's birth weight.Item Restricted Infant and child mortality in the Philippines(2008-10) Cabal, Billie Kristel D.G.; Morada, Julienne Marie A.; Tan, EditaItem Restricted The effect of provincial income class on the determinants of infant mortality in the Philippines(2008-04) Gonzales, Kimberely; Prado, Erika GiaInfant mortality is an urgent national concern for many developing countries. While a decline in aggregate Philippine infant mortality rates has been observed, the national average masks the fact that less developed provinces achieve relatively meager improvements in child mortality. In order to derive policy implications on how to best address the problem of health inequalities, separate regressions are run for three groups of provinces: first income class, second income class, and third and fourth income classes. The results reveal variations on the significance of child health determinants. In particular, public expenditures are significant explanatory variables in lower income provinces, but insignificant in richer provinces. This implies that the government must consider provincial income per capita in allocating its resources, allotting a bigger portion to less developed provinces. The Local Government Code of 1991, which states how government resources are allocated among local government units, was not intended to be progressive. Education and the number of public hospitals also show greater effects on infant mortality rates in lower economic sectors. Conversely, household expenditures on health and the number of private hospitals are found to be more significant in provinces with higher income.