Seema Vyas

TL;DR: How PCA-based indices are constructed, how they can be used, and their validity and limitations are reviewed, and issues related to choice of variables, data preparation and problems such as data clustering are addressed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify whether individual and household economic empowerment is associated with lower intimate partner violence in low and middle income country settings, and find evidence about women's involvement in income generation and experience of past year violence, with five finding a protective association and six documenting a risk association.

TL;DR: Low sales of antibiotics without prescription in private pharmacies in four Zimbabwean cities in relation to two tracer infectious conditions-sexually transmitted infections among females and males, and diarrhoea in a child is revealed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the implications of paid work among women market traders in Dar es Salaam and Mbeya, Tanzania, using semi-structured interviews conducted in 2009.

TL;DR: Empowerment strategies along with addressing social attitudes are likely to achieve reductions in rates of partner violence against women in Tanzania and in other similar low-income country settings.