We adopt a direct approach to measuring the welfare levels of households with different incomes and varying characteristics by using households' responses to subjective questions about their evaluations of their own economic status. We use this approach to analyze newly available u.S. data on subjective well-being. We address such interrelated questions as how to rank households by welfare leve...

A cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the impact of perceived quality and cost of utilisation of primary health care services, in relation to malaria, in rural and urban districts in Tanzania. This study intended to explore whether there are differences between rural and urban users in terms of their perceptions of quality of health services and how these perceptions affect househol...

Introduction: Reliance on out-of-pockets (OOP) payments for health services has continued to hamper access quality healthcare across Nigeria. Socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the gender household head as it influences impacts shocks OOP have received very little attention globally. This study investigated perspective shocks, expenditures coping mechanisms in North Central...

— This paper uses household and village-level survey data to investigate the food security of maleand female-headed households in Bangladesh with particular attention to indigenous ethnic groups, and finds no significant differences in the food security between these two types of households. The absence of social and cultural restrictions among the indigenous groups permitting their females gre...

Soil fertility decline continues to be a major challenge limiting agricultural productivity globally. Despite the novelty of organic-based technologies in enhancing production Kenya's central highlands, adoption is low. Therefore, we carried out cross-sectional household survey 300 randomly selected smallholder farmers determine specific practices by farmers; and socioeconomic factors that infl...

BACKGROUND Local governments are granted budgetary power in the Local Governments Act of the Republic of Uganda, which allows for local-level participation and flexibility in the allocation of financial grants channelled annually from central to local governments. The act prescribes a legal mandate to allocate public resources based on local priorities including the health needs of women compar...