Background: Achievement of food security has become one of the major challenges of most developing countries, including Zimbabwe. This study was designed to investigate the effect of agricultural commercialization on household food security. Methods: This study used cross-sectional data for the 2017/18 farming season collected from 165 smallholder farmer households in Zhombe north rural distric...

background: although most studies on female-headed families focus on women's access to social support, the associations between social capital and quality of life in these families are unclear in many societies (such as iran). this study aimed to determine the associations between social capital and quality of life in iranian female headed families.   methods : this cross-sectional study was pe...

Previous research shows that mothers are largely responsible for the care of children with disabilities in married couples. But many children with disabilities do not live with married couples. Using data on disabilities from the 2000 Census, we find a consistent pattern of living arrangements that leaves children with disabilities disproportionately under the roofs of their mothers or other wo...

The economic well-being of female-headed households is a growing public concern. While marital disruption undoubtedly precipitates major changes in household relationships and income sources, we show that its role in increasing poverty, especially in the short term, is seriously overstated by traditional data-collection methods. Using longitudinal data which allow us to follow women as wives an...

Large out-of-pocket spending on medical issues can expose households to catastrophic health expenditure, which result in poverty. This study aimed estimate the extent of expenditure among Benin and assess association between household characteristics. We used 2017 nationally representative survey for Benin, “Analyse Globale de la Vulnérabilité et Sécurité Alimentaire,” a logit model demographic...

  Background: Although most studies on female-headed families focus on women's access to social support, the associations between social capital and quality of life in these families are unclear in many societies (such as Iran). This study aimed to determine the associations between social capital and quality of life in Iranian female headed families.   Methods : This cross-sectional study was ...