Abstract In this article, we examine the joint influence of land access and gender household head on food insecurity by employing a logit model using data from 2015/2016 Nigerian General Household Survey. Our results show that female-headed households (FHHs) are more insecure than male-headed households. However, with 1-acre increase in their to land, FHHs 16 percent less likely be insecure. Th...

BACKGROUND In the absence of functional social security mechanisms for elderly people in Nigeria, elderly households are solely responsible for geriatric healthcare costs, which can lead to catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) - particularly among the poor. This study investigates the key determinants of CHE among poorly insured elderly households in Nigeria. We also offer some policy options...

BACKGROUND Hunger is associated with food insecurity at the household level and is considered as a global public health problem with long term adverse consequences on children's health. This study aims to determine the factors associated with child hunger from a nationally representative sample in Bangladesh among food insecure households. METHODS Data was derived from the Food Security and N...

The percent of households headed by married couples has recently fallen below 50%, while the percent of unmarried couples (both heterosexual and homosexual) continues to rise. Nationally-representative estimates of unmarried couples which first appeared in the 1990 and 2000 decennial Censuses are now available on an annual basis through the American Community Survey. In this paper we use state-...

OBJECTIVES This article examines the prevalence of food insecurity in Canada, the characteristics of people most likely to live in households lacking sufficient funds for food, and several related health problems. DATA SOURCE The data are from the cross-sectional household component of the 1998/99 National Population Health Survey and the Food Insecurity Supplement to that survey. ANALYTICA...

This paper estimates a housing demand function from a four year panel study. The findings indicate that the income elasticity of housing demand is around .6 or .7 for owners and around .5 for renters. This means that the percentage of income spent on housing declines as income rises, and that the property tax falls more heavily on the poor than on the rich. This finding differs from earlier stu...

Abstract The occurrence of disasters, especially in the post disaster phase, could be an opportunity to empower women housing reconstruction. Despite that disasters are on increase globally; they affect and men differently. Women still passive management have been found more vulnerable than men. This study provides insights into experiences empowerment reconstruction (PDHR) Gaza Strip-Palestine...

INTRODUCTION The paradoxical phenomenon of the coexistence of overweight and underweight individuals in the same household, referred to as the "dual burden of malnutrition", is a growing nutrition dilemma in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). AIMS The objectives of this study were (i) to examine the extent of the dual burden of malnutrition across different provinces in Indonesia and (...

This paper is based on a study carried out in Rakai District, Uganda. The assumption of the study is that orphans living on their own face much greater material and psychosocial challenges and stigma than other orphans and other vulnerable children, and thus the main objectives were to initiate, and evaluate, interventions that could improve the situation for the children in child-headed househ...