Despite sustained macroeconomic growth and impressive income poverty reduction in Uganda, the country’s total child nutrition status remains poor. More so, wide within country disparities in stunting and underweight rates exist across the country. This study exploredthe determinants of child...

Using the nationally representative Gender Productivity Survey (GPS) of 2007/08 conducted by the Uganda Bureau of 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...

This study assesses the health benefits of strict "cut-off criteria" on human health in relation to the proposal for a Regulation concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (COM(2006) 388). The Common Position text provides that active substances classified as carcinogen,...

Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...

This article presents the situation of public health in the 19th century Greece, with an emphasis on the financing of lazarettos. Due to "ignorance" and lack of therapeutic means and hospitals, isolation was the predominant practice for dealing with illness, both on the level of local society...