In 2003, the Chinese government launched in a rural area a voluntary health insurance plan, called New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), aiming to prevent rural residents from becoming impoverished by health expenditures. This paper uses a nation-wide four-year panel data to address county selection problem, households' participating behavior, and the impact of the plan. The results show: 1) C...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of gender inequality in education on rural poverty in Pakistan using Logit regression analysis on primary data sets. It is concluded that gender inequality in education has adverse impact on rural poverty. The empirical findings suggest that female-male enrolment ratio, female-male literacy ratio, Female-male ratio of total years of sc...

Objective: To determine prevalence trends of using Wood as the Main Cooking Fuel (WMCF) in Mexico and household characteristics that predict its use. Materials and methods: Estimates were obtained from the 1990, 2000 and 2010 censuses and from a national survey performed in 2012 and 2013. Results: In 2012-2013, 9.5% of the 66 321 surveyed households and 10.9% of their 252 011 residents used...

Identifying the factors that affect domestic water demand and consumption is very important in management of available regional water resources. In this study, relationships between water consumption and rural household activities are determined by comparing a snapshot of water consumption with rural household behavior of low, medium and high water consumers. In addition, the factors affecting ...

The objective of the current analysis is to see the factors responsible for malnutrition in children (under-5 years) in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. In this study binary logistic model is applied to 1831 observations of urban and 3427 observations of rural areas. The Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) is constructed and used as an indicator of malnutrition. It is estimated...

BACKGROUND There is limited research on how the empowerment of women and intimate partner violence (IPV) are associated with skilled birth attendance (SBA) among rural women in Uganda. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to investigate the association between women's empowerment, their experience of IPV and SBA in rural Uganda. METHODS Using data from the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey...

Information construction in rural area, which is crucial factor in pushing forward rural economy, even for agriculture, rural economy, and farmer in present China, consists of three phases: preliminary phase, development phase, and mature phase. To identify the growth phase of information construction in rural area is essential to assessment it. The paper analyzes the characteristics of each gr...