Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic … variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different … that increases in health (and height) coincide with economic development. …

Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … paper builds on that literature by considering the influence that net nutrition has on a population’s labor productivity … nutrition in people’s first 20 years has had a significant and positive effect on labor productivity over the twentieth century …

members of three companies. Aside from gathering baseline data on products used, health conditions addressed by these products … product distributor, factors such as control over one's health, creation of a support community through shared efforts, and … inform network marketers' beliefs and desires for autonomy in the spheres of finance, personal life, and health. …

Human health status in Russia has declined sharply over the last decade. The massive social changes that have taken … little information is available on the changes in health and disease patterns of Russia’s many indigenous populations. The … population health, in three indigenous Evenki communities of Central Siberia between 1991 and 1995. Children of the 1995 sample …

Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge …