Rural households that rely on natural resources for their livelihoods are expected to face increased vulnerability due to climate variability. A number of empirical papers have assessed the impact of environmental shocks on these households, including demographic research that has investigated the impact of shocks on migration. To date, few studies have explicitly modeled how individual and hou...

We explore how diet diversity differs with agricultural seasons and between households within pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihood systems, using variety of foods consumed as a less complex proxy indicator of food insecurity than benchmark indicators like anthropometry and serum nutrients. The study was in the central part of the rangelands in Uganda. Seventy nine households were monitored for...

Between 2000 and 2006 house prices rose more than fifty percent in real terms. Over that same period households’ mortgage and home equity debt relative to income shot up. Anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that households accessed the equity in their homes to fund current consumption. Little if any theoretical work, however, has examined the relationship between household consumption beha...

BACKGROUND China has been undergoing tremendous demographic and epidemiological transitions during the past three decades and increasing burden from non-communicable diseases and an ageing population have presented great health-care challenges for the country. Numerous studies examine catastrophic healthcare expenditures (CHE) worldwide on whole populations rather than specific vulnerable group...

In 1998, Bangladesh was devastated by the worst flood of the century. At their peak, the 1998 floods covered two thirds of Bangladesh, causing severe damage to the major rice crop and threatening the food security of tens of millions of households. Ultimately, well-functioning private markets, suitable government policies, and public and NGO interventions combined with effective private coping ...

The objective of this paper is to assess post-cyclone livelihood capitals status, identify major livelihood groups, adversity and crisis, and present the livelihood strategies of coastal households. Based on a questionnaire survey at household level, a total 331 out of 792 households are selected through simple random sampling from three purposively selected villages in the central coast of Ban...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes have become a leading threat to public health in India. This study examines socio-economic differences in self-reported morbidity due to CVD and diabetes, where people having these conditions seek care, how much households pay for and how they finance hospital treatment for these conditions. METHODS Data for this study are take...

The main objective of this study is to examine the effect microfinance services on socio-economic welfare urban households in Malaysia. We distribute questionnaires 400 respondents across three different areas Malaysia order collect relevant data for study. Quota sampling employed process collecting data. Incorporating income as a mediating variable into model, results show that most provided b...