emphasizes the importance of focusing on pregnancy health education, particularly for low-income women, as a potential way to …

inequality. Thirdly, decomposition analysis was conducted to determine the role of mother's education and health insurance …, respectively. Finally, health insurance contributed about 1.91 and 1.03 % to inequality in HAZ and WAZ, respectively. Conclusion …Background: Malnutrition is a prevalent public health concern in Ghana. While studies have identified factors that …

Background: Direct and time costs of accessing and using health care may limit health care access, affect welfare loss … min respectively. The average medical cost was 0.23 USD but only18% of patients paid for health care. The poorest and … rural patients faced substantial time burden to access health care (travel and waiting) but incurred less transport and …

Background: In developing countries, health shock is one of the most common idiosyncratic income shock and the main … access formal insurance markets in order to insure their consumption against health shocks. Thus, in this study, are the poor … and uninsured households more vulnerable from health shocks? We investigate the factors that lead to welfare loss from …

Objective: The causal link between a household’s economic standing and child health is known to suffer from endogeneity … impact. The backward link running from child health to household income is likely an inverse association in our sample with … lower child health inducing higher earnings. While higher average community education improved child health, increased …