Effective health services form the backbone of health interventions. Accessibility, quality, capacity, organization …, availability of human and physical resources and equity in the provision of health services are essential for a healthcare system … to deliver desired health and related sustainable development outcomes. This paper focuses on the impact of health …

terms of health, rural-urban migration is selective in that healthy rural residents choose to migrate. Occupational choices … and living conditions are detrimental to migrants' health, however. While migration has a positive effect on migrant …

The research objective of this paper is to test whether health conditions and health behavior are related to home … homeowners consistently report better health and less physical problems. The significance of home ownership remains even after … their future health by undergoing voluntarily medical screenings more frequently. Finally, our estimations suggest that home …

Implementation of evidence-based interventions to control obesity is regarded as a public health priority. In this …

-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find … that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by … various anthropometric measures. We further investigate the long-run gains from RASKIN by tracing the health status of …

Poverty and health are inextricably linked as the poor are always the first to suffer from degraded soil, water, and … investigate if adoption of organic agriculture leads to better health or lower expenditure on healthcare, a survey was conducted … on organic and conventional rice-farming households in North and Northeast Thailand in 2006. The results show that health …

the poor and vulnerable. Addressing child and maternal health issues within the context of the economic crisis is one key … countries, child and maternal health-related indicators tend to be disturbing despite the rapid growth rates in many of these … maternal health and pre/post natal care remains poor. This paper presents an overview of child and maternal health in the South …