Statistics (UBoS), the paper examines gender biases in school attainment, returns to education, expenditure on health and … education, access to health services. While Uganda has recorded progress on MDG 3: promote gender equality and empower women … free education both at primary and secondary level; and abolition of user fees in public health facilities is not …

both short and long term gains. Applying a recursive dynamic general equilibrium model on Uganda, we find that while the …

health leads to higher GDP growth rates and accelerates poverty reduction. Moreover, the rate of poverty is faster in rural …

a typical demographic and health survey (DHS). We estimate probit models for the correlates of risky sexual behaviors … attainment and access to health facilities are important for adopting safe sexual behaviors as well as the reducing the risk of …

demographic and health surveys undertaken during 1995–2006.The surveys are nationally representative and capture anthropometric … indicators for children aged below 5 years. The study investigated the determinants of health inequalities focusing on child … health status through a combination of decomposition and regression analysis. Our results show that household welfare status …