Mutual health organizations (MHOs) are voluntary membership organizations providing health insurance services to their members. MHOs aim to increase access to health care by reducing out-of-pocket payments faced by households. We used multiple regression analysis of household survey data from Ghana, Mali and Senegal to investigate the determinants of enrollment in MHOs, and the impact of MHO me...

BACKGROUND Women-headed families tend to be the most marginalized and poverty prone in any given community. One in 10 Iraqi households is headed by woman according to International Organization for Migration, though their assessments suggest that this ratio rises to 1 in 8 in displaced families. OBJECTIVE To draw attention to the exposure and vulnerability of women headed families to key medi...

This paper analyses factors associated with the establishment of 43 childand adolescent-headed households in Manicaland, Zimbabwe. Such households result from the rapid increase in numbers of parental deaths leading to overburdening of the capacity of relatives to fulfil their traditional role of caring for orphans. Most children living in child and adolescent headed households have had both pa...

This article explores the resilience of orphaned young people in safeguarding physical assets (land and property) inherited from their parents and sustaining their households without a co-resident adult relative. Drawing on the concept of resilience and the sustainable livelihoods framework, the article analyses the findings of an exploratory study conducted in 2008-2009 in Tanzania and Uganda ...

Well-being of female-headed Indian households: A multidimensional analysis using nonparametric stochastic dominance Presenters" (July 23, 2015).

Substantial growth in Malian milk supply is necessary to meet rising demand for dairy products while also improving the livelihoods of producers and strengthening competitiveness sector against imports. We applied a Cragg two-tiered model nationally representative dataset farming households examine factors influencing market participation decisions. Four key findings corresponding policy implic...