This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …

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 …

the World Health Organization reference population. The results of multiple probit regression models indicate a 6 percent …

Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to … being the main driver. This highlights the importance of considering the food environment to inform public health policies …

health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …

health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … the prevalence of three adult health risk factors - obesity, smoking, and heavy drinking - as an additional proxy for … latent health status. This extension of the Human Capital Index could also be useful for assessing the state of human capital …

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and …

population as per the World Health Organization standards. Several studies have shown that stunted growth during childhood … paper uses the 2016 geo-referenced Demographic and Health Survey in conjunction with relevant spatially gridded covariate …