"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …

economic and social development. What factors contribute to the excessive mortality, ill health, and disability in Russia …The poor health status of Russia's economically active adult population-its human capital-is imperiling sustainable … projects the health and economic gains that could result from such a program. …

-reported sex worker diaries which include detailed information on sexual behavior, labor supply, and health shocks, the authors … find that sex workers adjust their supply of risky, better compensated sex to cope with unexpected health shocks, exposing … responses entail significant health risks for sex workers and their partners, and suggest that sex workers are unable to cope …

"As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial …, knowledge and training in pesticide use and handling, sources of information, protective measures, and health effects. A two …-equation bivariate probit model was initially estimated for health impairment and trader perception with health effects as an endogenous …

pesticides, overuse is potentially a threatening problem to farmer health as well as the environment. To model pesticide overuse …, the authors used a 3-equation, trivariate probit framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as … endogenous dummy variables. Health effects (the first equation) were found to be strictly a function of the amount of pesticides …

demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the … population. Data collected by the 2000 Demographic and Health Survey indicate that although there were more deaths across the …

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …