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This issue brief describes organizations offering the new Medicare drug benefit and analyzes how companies are …
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Medicare HMOs, PPOs, and private fee-for-service plans) and new stand-alone prescription drug plans (PDPs). In 2006, all …
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promising, evidence-based clinical and community-based strategies to prevent and treat obesity for children and families. …
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The author responds to an article that proposes a mechanism to statistically test the difference in the relative contribution of the size of each parent to a child's birth weight and rate of weight gain during infancy—two factors associated with the development of obesity—urging...
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This article identifies maternal, child, and household characteristics in rural Indonesia and Bangladesh associated with maternal and child double burden of malnutrition, the coexistence of a stunted child and an overweight mother within the same household. Maternal and child double burden was...
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In the United States, a disparity among racial/ethnic groups in the prevalence of obesity is one of the great concerns … and enigmas in the obesity epidemic. This article seeks to determine whether there are racial/ethnic differences in the … prevalence of obesity among preschool children and determine whether these differences are explained by socioeconomic factors …
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The current emphasis on increasing physical activity in young children has arisen in response to the childhood obesity … emphasize other outcomes, besides obesity, and use different language. Specifically, they suggest using the word â …
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Does eating school meals influence children’s dietary habits or chances of being overweight or obese? This study addressed these questions using data from the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment III Study. National School Lunch Program participants had lower intakes of sugar-sweetened...
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