Background During the last three decades, the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Iran has fallen considerably; from 6.5 per woman in 1983 to 1.89 in 2010. This paper analyzes the extent to which economic determinants at the micro and macro levels are associated with the number of children in Iranian households.   Methods Household data from the 2010 Household Expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS) is ...

One of the primary goals of household studies of infectious disease transmission is to estimate the household secondary attack rate (SAR), the probability of direct transmission from an index case A to a susceptible household member B during A’s infectious period. In a household with m susceptibles and a single index case, the number of secondary infections is often treated as a binomial(m, p) ...

Understanding the factors affecting the utilization of health services is essential for health planners, especially in low income countries where increasing access to and use of health services is one of the main policy goals of government. While much has been written on adult health-seeking behaviour, there is comparatively little known about the influence of the broader context such as the ef...

Background: Knowledge regarding distribution and determinants of household food insecurity focusing on vulnerable groups is utmost important for ensuring food security, which is every nation prime agenda. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and determinants of household food insecurity among the tribal population of Purulia, West Bengal. Methods: A cross-sectional study was car...

The objective of the research was to determine effect public services in household on poverty Peru, period 2021, for which a quantitative, non-experimental approach considered with descriptive and correlational design. information from National Household Survey Institute Statistics Informatics (INEI) database used, considering modules “Dwelling Characteristics”, “Household Members’ “Education”,...