Low-income volunteers constitute a major part of AIDS care workforces in sub-Saharan Africa, yet little research has been conducted to determine how poverty and insecurity among volunteers impact their wellbeing and the sustainability of the AIDS treatment programmes they support. This paper presents longitudinal ethnographic and epidemiological research documenting how the 2008 food crisis in ...

Much research on alternative medicine seeks to discover why people use practices which orthodox medicine rejects as ineffective: rejected alternative medicine. However, to obtain a sample large enough for statistical analysis, many studies include as alternative health care, practices such as chiropractic or acupuncture which most doctors accept as effective for limited purposes: accepted alter...

Women are living longer than ever. A woman who is 65 today can, on average, expect to live another 19 years to age 84. Despite recognition of the essential role preventive care and healthy habits play in these later years, older women and their physicians often miss opportunities to promote good health. Medicare, which provides basic health insurance coverage for those 65 and older, does includ...

Socioeconomic status (SES) and other social determinants of health are “identified as top priorities for action” in research [Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children (CCRC), 2011, p. 42]. Consequently, SES is increasingly popular in some psychological and neuroscience research in order to expand upon understanding of its relationship to child development. In sum, this research demonstrate...

A number of recent papers have found evidence of interdependencies in utility functions, in that, ceteris paribus, individual well-being falls as others' income or consumption increases. This paper asks if, in addition, the distribution of income in the reference group matters. I consider full-time employees in eleven waves of British panel data, and take life satisfaction and the GHQ-12 as mea...

We investigate the reliability of estimated income poverty profiles for Albanian survey data. We find evidence that a significant number of households with low reported incomes have relatively high living standards and are consequently misclassified as poor. We extend the theory of contaminated distributions to incorporate direct measures of well-being as indicators of data contamination, and d...

growing segment of the U.S. population under age 18 (Van Hook and Fix 2000). One in five children in the United States is the child of an immigrant, evidence of the demographic impact of recent rapid immigration. In addition, one in four lowincome children is an immigrant’s child (Fix, Zimmermann, and Passel 2001). But despite their demographic and policy significance, children of immigrants an...

This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective wellbeing, and sketches possible implications for public policy. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being beyond those flowing through economic channels,...

Financial abuse against older individuals is estimated to be the second most common form of abuse, following only selfneglect in terms of incidence. 1 Estimates of financial abuse range from 20% to 30% of all abuse against older people. 1,2 Financial abuse is predicted to continue to increase in the future, because the population of older people is still increasing and because older people have...

A Publication of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research More than 2.24 million low-income adults in California cannot always afford to put food on the table, and as a result, almost one out of three of these adults, 658,000, experiences episodes of hunger. This is a sad reality in a state that has the largest agricultural economy in the United States and produces abundant highquality fruits...