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Despite improvements in food production, many rural households in Bangladesh are still food insecure, and this requires urgent policy intervention if the situation is to improve. This article examines the factors influencing food security of vulnerable rural riverine households in Bangladesh. The results reveal that riverine households’ lack of access to many basic necessities and services, such as food, safe drinking water, education and health, results in increased vulnerability to food insecurity which could lead to an unfortunate vicious cycle of poverty. Model results indicate that household heads’ education, household size, adoption of livestock and access to non-farm earnings also affect food security. More importantly, evidence suggests that access to improved health care also needs policy support in parallel with improved access to food to achieve and sustain long-term food security in Bangladesh.
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086235
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The consequences of the socioeconomic transition for male physical health in Russia are widely documented, but much less research examines psychological well-being and mental outlook, or how these outcomes differ for men and women in Russia. Exploring gender differences in personal control, an important aspect of psychological well-being, we find that, controlling for social and economic factors, Russian women report lower levels of control than men. Gender differences in the social determinants of perceived control highlight the importance of gender roles for understanding psychological stress and inform how social expectations differentially influence men's and women's paths to well-being in Russia.
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179691
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This paper aims to measure multidimensional energy poverty at the household level and study its impacts on health status. Based on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data, we evaluated multidimensional energy poverty at the household level using the entropy method. We then examined the effects of energy poverty on health status from both physical and psychological perspectives. The empirical results indicate that multidimensional energy poverty harms both physical and mental health. We further conducted regional and urban–rural comparative analyses. The findings demonstrate that the health of residents in less developed provinces is more severely affected, and multidimensional energy poverty deteriorates the physical health of rural residents but impacts the mental health of urban residents. For developing countries like China, the first priority should be multidimensional energy poverty reduction through modern energy infrastructure system construction and subsidies for energy poor households, and improving the medical security system should be considered as next step. There is also an urgent need of policy measures focusing on mitigating regional and urban–rural disparities at the same time.
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