While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patientś demand for health services, and that …

I explore a unique exogenous instrument to examine how the intra-familial position of women influence health outcomes … of their children using micro data from Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 2008. Using the 2 SLS-IV estimation … technique, I build a model of household bargaining and child health development with perceptions of women regarding wife …

Poverty is associated with women due to unemployment, ill health, malnutrition and high fertility. The women are …, health in the family. Diet and nutrition are important factors in the promotion and maintenance of good health throughout … life. But those people who are HIV positive have to take more concern about their health and the family. The economic …

the 2007 fee exemption policy as a natural experiment. In an era where UHC and health equity are at the center of the post …