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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Grace Carroll, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Graciela Teruel, Meztli Moncada, David Aban-Tamayo, Heitor Werneck, Ricardo Montes de Moraes, Rafael Perez-Escamilla
Summary: Maternity leave policies are crucial for protecting gender equality and maternal health, but often exclude women in the informal sector. A study on the cost of implementing a maternity cash transfer in Brazil and Ghana shows significant differences, with Brazil's cost being 2.2 to 3.2 times higher than Ghana's, due to differences in labor market structure and demographic characteristics.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH
(2022)
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Adiatma Y. M. Siregar, Pipit Pitriyan, Donny Hardiawan, Paul Zambrano, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Graciela Ma Teruel Belismelis, Meztli Moncada, David Tamayo, Grace Carroll, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Roger Mathisen
Summary: The estimated financing need for maternity leave cash transfer (MCT) for informally employed women of reproductive age in Indonesia ranges from US$175 million to US$669 million annually, with the yearly financing need not exceeding 0.5% of Indonesian GDP.
INTERNATIONAL BREASTFEEDING JOURNAL
(2021)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Valerie Gilbert Ulep, Paul Zambrano, Janice Datu-Sanguyo, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Graciela Ma Teruel Belismelis, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Grace J. Carroll, Roger Mathisen
Summary: This study evaluates the cost and financial feasibility of implementing a non-contributory maternity cash transfer program in the informal sector in the Philippines. The estimated annual financing need for a 26-week maternity cash transfer program is USD309 million, equivalent to less than 0.1% of the country's gross domestic product.
MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Adiatma Y. M. Siregar, Pipit Pitriyan, Donny Hardiawan, Paul Zambrano, Roger Mathisen
Summary: Providing an enabling environment for breastfeeding is hindered by the unequal implementation of paid maternity leave due to perceived or actual financial costs. This study compared two methods used to estimate the cost of paid maternity leave in Indonesia, one for the formal sector and the other for the informal sector. The results showed differences in the number of mothers covered, total annual costs, and cost per mother between the two methods.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH
(2021)
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Economics
Erkmen Giray Aslim, Irina Panovska, M. Anil Tas
Summary: This study evaluates the relationships between maternity leave duration, female and male labor force participation, and aggregate productivity in emerging countries. The research finds that increasing maternity leave duration may lead to short-term decreases in productivity, primarily due to temporary declines in productivity caused by long leaves, but there are no significant adverse effects in the longer term. Maternity leave is associated with positive but limited effects on female labor force participation, while also significantly increasing male labor force participation.
ECONOMIC MODELLING
(2021)
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Economics
Aishwarya Kekre, Kanika Mahajan
Summary: This paper evaluates the impact of a maternity support conditional cash transfer (CCT) scheme on the health outcomes of children in India. The study finds that the scheme has a positive effect on birth weight, duration of breastfeeding, and long-term weight-for-age, particularly for male children. The results also show positive effects on height-for-age, insignificant effects on infant mortality, and significantly negative effects on neonatal mortality over a longer time period. These findings highlight the importance of access to local healthcare infrastructure in ensuring the success of maternal CCT schemes.
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
(2023)
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Shi (Tracy) Xu, Wan Yang, Laurie Wu, Emily Ma, Danni Wang
Summary: This study investigates maternity leave policies and practices in the U.S. lodging industry using a mixed-methods approach. It fills an important literature gap and aims to stimulate future research in the field of maternity leave policies.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Riki Relaksana, Adhadian Akbar, Estro Dariatno Sihaloho, Dani Ferdian, Adiatma Y. M. Siregar
Summary: This study compares the cost of different feeding methods in Indonesia, including direct and indirect exclusive breastfeeding, partial exclusive breastfeeding, and commercial milk formula. It also examines the impact of maternal socioeconomic and mental health factors on exclusive breastfeeding.
INTERNATIONAL BREASTFEEDING JOURNAL
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Antara Rai Chowdhury, Aditi Surie, Gautam Bhan
Summary: This study examines how informally working mothers balance work and childcare practices, as well as how the conditions of informal employment influence practices such as exclusive breastfeeding. Findings suggest that the conditions and nature of informal employment significantly shape maternal and child health outcomes in cities of the global south.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2021)
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Surgery
Ya-Wen Chen, Maggie L. Westfal, Christy E. Cauley, David C. Chang, Cassandra M. Kelleher
Summary: This study found that surgeon clinical productivity does not significantly decrease after maternity or other types of leaves.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Denise Diaz Payan, Neha Zahid, Jeffrey Glenn, Ha Tt Tran, Tran Thi Thu Huong, Corrina Moucheraud
Summary: This study investigates the implementation of breastfeeding promotion policies in Vietnam using a qualitative approach. The findings indicate several positive outcomes resulting from the implementation of extended maternity leave policy and further restrictions on marketing of breast milk substitutes. Key implementation actors include national-level bureaucratic actors, local organizations, and international partners. However, challenges such as insufficient funding, limited training, cumbersome reporting processes, and pervasive misinformation are also identified.
HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING
(2022)
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Forestry
Shannon Cui, Rattiya Suddeephong Lippe, Joerg Schweinle
Summary: Informal employment is the predominant form of employment in the global forest sector, and it is caused by poverty, lack of education, and migration. Informal employment in the forest sector has various decent work deficits and has led to socio-economic effects such as working poverty and occupational accidents and illnesses.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Caroline A. Zimmermann, Courtney Kraus, Ashley J. Campbell, Mona Kaleem, Aakriti Garg Shukla, Elyse McGlumphy
Summary: This study evaluates family and maternity leave policies and examines the social and professional impacts on female ophthalmologists. Participants were recruited through an online list-serv and surveyed about their experiences with maternity leave. The results show that many women in ophthalmology face challenges during maternity leave, including inadequate information, desire for more leave time, variations in pay practices, and lack of support for breastfeeding.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Kien Le, My Nguyen
Summary: The study finds that paid maternity leave has a positive impact on educational attainment and adult height, and calls for its enforcement and extension.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Antonio Oliver-Roig, Juan Ramon Rico-Juan, Miguel Richart-Martinez, Julio Cabrero-Garcia
Summary: This study successfully predicted exclusive breastfeeding during in-hospital postpartum stay using machine learning algorithms and explained the model's behavior to support decision making. The results demonstrated the order of importance of specific predictor variables to the outcome.
COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE
(2022)