Complementing evidence that childhood poverty negatively affects adult outcomes, the impact of poverty on well-being in late childhood is investigated empirically to help inform the targeting of policy. Child well-being and household poverty are conceptualised as multi-dimensional phenomena and structural equation modelling used to ascertain the relative importance of determinants of child well...

Background and Objectives: Depression is the most common mood disorder, which may be experienced by most of the people during their life. Food insecurity may result in mental disorders such as anxiety and depression. The aim of this study was to assess depression status and its relation to household food insecurity in women living in Northwest of Iran. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sect...

Pakistan is facing severe level of food insecurity in terms physical and economic access. In this regard, current study will focus to empirically investigate the leading determinants by using HIES 2019 data set. Household Expenditures Survey (HES) method be used find status Pakistan. method, information about quantities expenditure incidence at household level. Further, logistic regression mode...

We previously reported a validation study in 26 000 British residents, showing that postcodes were good indicators of a wide range of household characteristics related to socioeconomic status, including occupation, education, home ownership and access to various consumer goods. That report, however, was too brief to include details of the correlations between postcode estimates and reported hou...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to examine the effect of household and community characteristics on financial catastrophe and impoverishment due to health payment in Western and Central Rural China. METHODS A household survey was conducted in 2008 in Hebei and Shaanxi provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region using a multi-stage sampling technique. Independent variables included village ch...

This study investigates the gap in dietary diversity and thereby quantifies this into its main drivers between rural urban households. The statistical analysis based on data from Household Integrated Expenditures Survey 2018-19 for Pakistan shows that there is a significant mean difference household across rural-urban regions. To quantify regions, multivariate nonlinear Oaxaca-Blinder decomposi...

The objective of this study was to explore demographic and economic characteristics associated with household food security of 2,784 low-income households with pre-school aged children receiving food supplements from the Colombian Plan for Improving Food and Nutrition in Antioquia - MANA (Mejoramiento Alimentario y Nutricional de Antioquia) in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia. Included in ...

Food insecurity, as a multi-faceted problem with far-reaching health and societal consequences, is prevalent among disadvantaged households. Household food insecurity has made the notion operationally useful in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies. This study was to investigate the socio-demographic associates contributing to severity of food insecurity among vuln...