contraceptives by homeless women in Nairobi, Kenya, and draw policy recommendations based on the findings. The study utilized the … logit model to analyze determinants of contraceptive utilization by homeless women in Nairobi using primary data collected … by the respondent, drug abuse by respondents' partner, poverty, child planning, health facility delivery, neonatal death …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …