pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the …

Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major … literature by taking stock and providing an overview of current knowledge of the impact of income inequality on three important … outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …

Health System (particularly the National Health Service), and the reduction of poverty and economic and social inequality. …The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We …In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … apply the 'MIMIC' approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional income-fuel cost indicators, we also use more proximal heating … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …