This aspect of the selection process does not appear equitable, given that children in a household constitute a burden that is both financial and material.
The compound is typically a cluster of huts, each of which constitutes a separate household.
I was no more certain about what constituted a legitimate household expense than I was about the need to maintain separate accounts, but I did not protest.
Family, a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, parents, children, and siblings.
It has the functions of both elderly care and childcare and constitutes a critical household type when social security is not well established.
Catastrophic health expenditures are defined as health care costs that constitute a large share of household resources and either divert from consumption of basic goods or force the household to use savings, sell assets, or borrow money [10], [25].
In developing countries, the cost of health-care services covered by out-of-pocket payments can constitute a significant portion of household resources.
Catastrophic expenditure does not, therefore, imply that costs are excessively high, as even a relatively low cost may constitute a high proportion of household income of the poor.
The analysis also raises questions around the ability of children to access existing social networks and external assistance in the future without the support of healthy caregivers, bearing in mind that these networks currently constitute a key component of households' ability to cope with stressors.
