Summary Background Overweight and obesity is a global epidemic. Forecasting future trajectories of the epidemic is crucial for providing an evidence base for policy change. In this study, we examine the historical trends of the global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and...

Household waste management is one of the major challenges of municipalities in developing countries. In many large cities, private service providers deliver the service of household waste collection for a fee, but in smaller cities this service is not always available as it may not be profitable...

Household waste management is one of the major challenges of municipalities in developing countries. In many large cities, private service providers deliver the service of household waste collection for a fee, but in smaller cities this service is not always available as it may not be profitable...

This paper presents a choice experiment designed to estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of rural farmers to mitigate damages caused by invasive plant species, particularly Mikania micrantha, in the buffer zone of the Chitwan National Park in Nepal. In subsistence economies, where households...

This paper presents analysis of a choice experiment (CE) designed to estimate willingness-topay (WTP) to mitigate damages caused by invasive plant species (IPS) in a rural community of Nepal. In order to address the cash constraints problem in a subsistence economy, two payment attributes, labor...

Although the urban health issue has been of long-standing interest to public health researchers, majority of the studies have looked upon the urban poor and migrants as distinct subgroups. Another concern is, whether being poor and at the same time migrant leads to a double disadvantage in the...