Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction,
development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and …

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies adversely affect a third of the world's people.
Consequently, a series of global goals and a serious amount of donor and national …

Previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural
India. However estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments could be biased if …

Beyond criminology?/Paddy Hillyard and Steve Tombs--Towards a political economy of
harm: states, corporations and the production of inequality/Steve Tombs and Paddy Hillyard …

ABSTRACT The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three scholars on the
grounds that their pioneering use of randomized control trials (RCTs) was innovative …

Understanding of global health and changing morbidity and mortality is limited by
inadequate measurement of population health. With fewer than one-third of deaths …

Objectives To describe selected newborn care practices related to cord care, thermal care
and breastfeeding in rural Uttar Pradesh and to identify socio-demographic, antenatal and …

Most Western health professionals practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture
on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very important. Despite this, most lower level …

Despite the vast literature on health care expenditures (HCE) and health care financing
strategies (HCFS) in low-and middle-income countries, there is limited evidence of gender …

Objective. In India, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (ST/SC) have been excluded
from Hindu society for thousands of years. Together, they comprise over 24% of India's …