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Does more education always lead to better health? Evidence from rural malaysia (2015)
Journal Article
Leeves, G., & Soyiri, I. (2015). Does more education always lead to better health? Evidence from rural malaysia. Biomed research international, 2015, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/539212

Background. Education is usually associated with improvement in health; there is evidence that this may not be the case if education is not fully utilised at work. This study examines the relationship between education level, occupation, and health o... Read More about Does more education always lead to better health? Evidence from rural malaysia.

Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district (2015)
Journal Article
Arzoaquoi, S. K., Essuman, E. E., Gbagbo, F. Y., Tenkorang, E. Y., Soyiri, I., & Laar, A. K. (2015). Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 11(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-015-0044-0

© 2015 Arzoaquoi et al. Background: Food taboos are known from virtually all human societies and pregnant women have often been targeted. We qualitatively assessed food taboos during pregnancy, its motivating factors, and enforcement mechanisms in th... Read More about Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district.