Using longitudinal and biomarker data from the China Family Panel Studies and the China Health and Nutrition Survey …, this study examines the association between the type of domestic cooking fuel and the health of women aged ≥16 in rural … LNG have a significantly lower probability of chronic or acute diseases and are more likely to report better health. Even …

We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and … worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we consider – i.e. general self-assessed health but also more specific … workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate …

how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …

negative effects. (5) The more siblings a woman has and the lower her father's social status, the worse is her health status …Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a … number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting …

long been battle grounds for the often rancorous debates about the provisions of the Reproductive Health (RH) Law. In …-appropriate health and sexuality education in schools. Critics then raised a public health concern, saying that exposing children to … reproductive health care, especially mandatory sexuality education, leads to earlier sexual initiation and higher rates of sexual …

apply the 'MIMIC' approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … decision-making, husband/partner's use of violence, woman's attitude towards this violence, available information, and …