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The New Age of Food Marketing: How Companies are Targeting and Luring our Kids — and What Advocates can do About it
BMSG, Berkeley Media Studies Group - eSocialSciences - 2012
Why should health advocates be concerned about the new marketing paradigm? Because young people's choices about what to eat and when are largely shaped by food and beverage marketing -- and these industries are now reaching our kids through a multitude of interactive devices and platforms,...
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The Rise of Obesity in Transition Economies: Theory and Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Huffman, Sonya K; Rizov, Marian - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study integrates theoretical and empirical models to facilitate understanding of human obesity and the factors … contributing to rising obesity in Russia during the transition from a planned to a market economy. Recent individual level data … education are important determinants of obesity in Russia. Empirical results strongly support our model for production of health …
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From Theory to Practice: Translating Research into Health Outcomes
Medicine, PLoS - eSocialSciences - 2008
Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part of the behaviour-change process.
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Fighting Junk Food Marketing to Kids
BMSG, Berkeley Media Studies Group - eSocialSciences - 2010
methods to tackle the problem of junk-food adddiction and obesity. …
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Women’s Malnutrition in India: The Role of Economic and Social Status
Dahiya, Shikha; Viswanathan, Brinda - eSocialSciences - 2014
This study has used India Human Development Survey, 2005 to study the factors influencing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of women between 20 to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition and over nutrition and a quantile regression model has been used to capture the differential...
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Politics and Public Policies: Politics of Human Development in Uttar Pradesh, India
Singh, Shyam; Kumar, V Anil - eSocialSciences - 2014
In India, public policies for human development are politically contested for many reasons like diverse political interests, commitment to specific social bases by political regimes etc. They have rendered human development policies and programmes ploys for political bargaining and clientelism...
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NAC Working Group on Gender and the Sex Ratio Draft Recommendations
Naqvi, Farah; Kumar, A.K. Shiva - eSocialSciences - 2012
The NAC Working Group held three national consultations on different aspects of the issue of declining child sex ratio. The Working Group conveners also separately met with Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and with the National Mission for the...
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Domestic Wheat Price Formation and Food Inflation in India: International Prices, Domestic Drivers (Stocks, Weather, Public Policy), and the Efficacy of Public Policy Interventions...
Dasgupta, Dipak; Dubey, R N; Satish, R - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper gives information on global wheat market developments, price transmission and impacts on Indian domestic markets, as well as an assessment of public policies to manage domestic prices. This also tracks, monitors and forecasts fast-moving key macro-economic variables with potentially...
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Fall in Sex Ratio: A National Shame
Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2011
Census figures show that the child sex ratio has gone down. There are several reasons for this. The issue is serious and issue should be dealt immediately.
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AIDAN Policy Brief: Drug Prices and Affordability
AIDAN, All India Drug Action Forum - eSocialSciences - 2009
India has a booming drug industry and has contributed to making generics at low prices worldwide. But medicines within India are overpriced and unaffordable. Price regulation of medicines is a key public policy measure for health of India’s teeming masses. Only the Government of India can...
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