According to the most recent estimates from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS), the nonmetropolitan poverty rate was 15.4% in 2019, compared with 11.9% for metropolitan areas. As compared to urban women, rural women spend more time in reproductive and household work. In addition, rural ...
By 2050 Africa’s most populous nation could have nearly 400 million people squeezed into a country one-tenth the size of the United States
Of the 716 million people living in extreme poverty and exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution, almost half (48.6 percent) are in India, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. With over 202 million, India has the highest number of people living in extreme poverty and exposed to ...
Household catastrophic payments for tuberculosis care in Nigeria: incidence, determinants, and policy implications for universal health coverage. Infect Dis Poverty. 2013;2(1):21. https://doi.org/10.1186/2049-9957-2-21. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Laokri S, Dramaix-Wilmet M,...
The poverty rate, health expenditure burden and CHE incidence were divided into five categories based on the natural breaks and are visualized in Fig. 1, where the darker the region, the larger the value, meaning the higher the incidence. Fig. 1 Regional distribution of poverty rate, health ...
requires to reach a 3% extreme poverty rate. Dots representing the countries of Bangladesh, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines are black. Dots in yellow represent regions and show the average growth needed for countries within each region...
Figure 1 illustrates the global distribution of age-standardized DALYs rate for these diseases in 2021. Table 1 Global burden of six viral infectious diseases of poverty in 2021 and 1990, with percentage change (numbers and rates) Full size table Fig. 1 Global distribution of age-standardized ...
Fuel cost, low incomes and energy inefficient dwellings, which are key constituents of energy poverty have implication on under 5 mortality rate and inequality in education. This study examined the link between energy poverty, under 5 mortality and inequality in education using data for 33 African ...
The STATA 18.0 (StataCorp LLC, College Station, Texas, USA) was used to conduct meta-analyses to synthesise the rate of HBV healthcare utilisation and generate the combined effects of the influencing factors. Pooled rates, OR, and 95% CI were calculated, with the significance level set at ...
Importantly, there was no evidence of a negative association between plantations and poverty in any of the seven countries, but three countries showed no significant relationship between plantations and MPI living standards. Fig. 2: Post-matching model results. Rate ratios higher than 1 indicate ...