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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Wealth index"”.
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Applicability of the Inclusive Wealth Index as a measure of sustainable development for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… 2014, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI) growth per capita has been negative. This study evaluates the extent to which the Inclusive Wealth Index is applicable to the nation. The study evaluates the method and makes new contributions for Saudi Arabia by adding components …
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Socioeconomic Status and Health Behavior in Nepal
… This study aimed to construct an asset-based wealth index to estimate household wealth; and to develop and test prediction models for tobacco use and physical activity in a community-based sample of adults in Dhulikhel, central Nepal. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using data …
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Microfinance Usage And Living Standards In Kenya Microfinance Usage And Living Standards In Kenya
… of microfinance institutions on the household wealth index, which is ranked one to five, uses the multinomial logit model. Based on the descriptive findings, 65.6% of households interviewed are in rural areas. Fifty-eight percent of the heads of the households are male with 55% of the …
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Influences on Children's Human Capital in Rural Malawi
… in Malawi suggest that children's health-wealth gradient can vary from other settings. This dissertation begins with a description of the methods used to create a household wealth variable using assets data in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health project. By using a fixed …
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A Bayesian multilevel model for women unemployment in South Africa
… established to decrease with an increase of age, wealth index, and educational attainment.
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Early Life Rainfall and Later Life Human Capital Outcomes in Bangladesh
… individuals early-life on later life health, wealth and education outcomes of Bangladeshi women born between 1952-1988. I link historical rainfall for each woman’s birth year and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) cluster of birth with current outcomes from the 1999/2000, 2004 and 2007 survey …
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Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
… CHE. To measure socioeconomic status a composite wealth index was calculated. Results: The final sample included 20,699 households. The main determinants were having a senior member [OR=2.14 (1.40-3.28)], senior head of house hold [OR=0.46 (0.29-0.74)] and employment status [OR=0.63 (0.49-0.80)]. …
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Awareness of cervical cancer risk factors and symptoms and lay beliefs amongst women recently diagnosed with cervical cancer in South Africa and Zimbabwe
… Zimbabwean women, those in the second highest wealth index or who were known to be living with HIV were significantly more likely to know ≥1 cervical cancer risk factor compared to those in the poorest wealth index (aOR 5.69 95% CI 1.21-29.24) or those who were not living with HIV (aOR 2.14 95% …
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The determinants of postnatal health check among mothers in Sierra Leone: evidence from SLDHS 2019
… socioeconomic characteristics (age, education, wealth, residence, and marital status) affect postnatal care use. The study also explores the role of these factors in determining the type of healthcare provider and the content of care received, using data from the 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic …
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The determinants of mothers’ access to antenatal healthcare in South Africa: insights from the Eastern Cape province
… that age, marital status, population group, wealth index and working status influenced the women’s timing of their first antenatal healthcare visit, the number of antenatal healthcare visits and their blood pressure being monitored during pregnancy. Therefore, the South African Government, …
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Asset Holdings and Undernutrition of Young Children: Evidence from China Health and Nutrition Survey
… and weight-for-height (WHZ) z score, while the wealth index is obtained by principal component analysis as the proxy of assets. Findings from both the regressions and SEM models suggest that assets have a positive impact on HAZ or chronic malnutrition, mainly via household food security, child …
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Assessing socio-economic inequalities in the use of antenatal care in the Southern African Development community
… and called 'Intensity’. ANC and SES using the wealth index were used to construct the concentration curves and indices to determine whether health care utilization is concentrated among the poor or the rich. Results Over 70% of all who lived in rural areas had '0 ANC’, with Namibia and Tanzania …
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Shared-component model with application to mapping gender specific pattern in HIV testing and condom use in Namibia
… the radio, frequency of watching television, wealth index, times away from home, smoking, alcohol consumption, employment status, age at first sexual intercourse, type of residence and marital status whereas spatial references to the communities were modelled as structured and unstructured …
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Measuring what works: a mixed-methods evaluation of women’s groups on maternal health uptake in rural Nepal.
… while controlling for: 1) a constructed wealth index; and 2) women’s socio-economic characteristics in a five-year controlled, non-randomised, repeated cross-sectional study of a community-based health promotion intervention targeting maternal health in Nepal. Second, the qualitative data …
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Determinants of maternal use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and visit to a medical facility for diarrhea among under-five children in Nigeria: a secondary analysis of 2013 Nigerian demographic and health survey
… maternal education, place of residence, wealth index. The logistic regressions found that maternal education and place of residence were important determinants of diarrhea management among under-five children. Compared to mothers with no education, mothers with tertiary education or …
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Socioeconomic inequities of malaria prevalence in under-five children in Ghana between 2016 and 2019
… included socio-economic status (household wealth), age of child, mother's education, place of stay, region and a few others. Our study applied the concentration indices and curves to assess socioeconomic inequalities in malaria prevalence among under-five children and decomposing the …
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Assessment of the supply chain and factors influencing consumer decisions to purchase bean-based processed products in Lusaka province of Zambia.
… decisions within households, with eating habits, wealth index, and the work status of the household head emerging as critical factors influencing the consumption of bean-based processed products. The results carry implications for various stakeholders within Zambia's agricultural sector, providing …
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Assessment of the supply chain and factors influencing consumer decisions to purchase bean-based processed products in Lusaka province of Zambia.
… decisions within households, with eating habits, wealth index, and the work status of the household head emerging as critical factors influencing the consumption of bean-based processed products. The results carry implications for various stakeholders within Zambia's agricultural sector, providing …
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An event history analysis of socio-economic determinants of adult mortality in Namibia
… health; time to the nearest health facility and wealth index. The explanatory analysis was carried out using the Kaplan Meier curves, with the log rank test used to assess significance. Further geo-additive survival models were carried out using the Bayesian framework for joint modelling of …
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Access to financial services: towards an understanding of the role and impact of financial exclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the impact of access to finance on household wealth. The few studies which have looked at this relationship in the past apply a linear estimation and thus inadvertently assume a uniform distribution across all levels of poverty. This study examines the heterogeneous impact of access to finance …
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