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Faculty perceptions about attributes and barriers impacting the adoption and diffusion of Web-Based Educational Technologies (WBETs) at the University of Cape Coast and the Univers...
Dooley, Kim E. (contributor); Lindner, James R. (contributor) - 2005
The purpose of this study was to determine faculty perceptions about factorsimpacting the adoption and diffusion of Web-Based Educational Technologies (WBETs)at the University of Cape Coast and the University of Ghana, Legon. This study, based onRogers’ theory of adoption and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464792
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THE IMPACT OF HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL DETERMINANTS OF CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION: CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE FROM WEST AFRICA
Penders, Christopher L.; Staatz, John - 2001
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443549
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Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland
Irz, Xavier T. - 2009
Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444779
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Do Income Constraints Inhibit Spending on Fruits and Vegetables Among Low-Income Households?
Stewart, Hayden; Blisard, Noel; Jolliffe, Dean - 2003
This study assesses whether income constraints inhibit spending on fruits and vegetables among low-income households. If this is the case, then it is hypothesized that the distribution of expenditures on fruits and vegetables by low-income households should be stochastically dominated by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446622
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The Influence of Health on Labor Productivity: An Analysis of European Conscription Data
Knapp, David - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475139
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Underlying Contextual Effects Leading to over Consumption: Extremeness Aversion and Bundling
Sharpe, Kathryn Michelle - 2008
Obesity is now a global problem. Within the U.S., the rise in obesity has been largely driven by the increase in caloric consumption. By specifically observing the practices in the fast food industry, this dissertation examines two factors, portion sizes and bundling, to answer the question,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475450
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Health and wealth: Dietary supplements, network marketing and the commodification of health
Dixon, Anna R - 2003
Dietary supplements overall constitute a multibillion-dollar industry in the U.S. today. This dissertation investigates a heretofore poorly-documented aspect of the burgeoning dietary supplements industry: network marketing. Network marketing, exemplified by companies like Amway as well as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451264
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Descriptive epidemiology and health consequences of childhood obesity
Reilly, John - 2005
Obesity is now the most common disorder of childhood in the developed world, and its prevalence is still increasing. A large body of high-quality and consistent evidence shows that it is best defined using the body mass index (BMI) percentile relative to national BMI reference data. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459861
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Bargaining and household dynamics: The impact of education and financial control on nutrition outcomes in South Africa
Simister J.; Piesse J. - 2003
on child nutrition in developing countries has been more successful, and here consistent patterns have been found. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480494
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Transforming salmonid aquaculture from a consumer to a producer of long chain omega-3 fatty acids
Turchini, Giovanni M.; Francis, David S.; Keast, … - 2011
Recommendations to endorse the sustainability of wild fish stock utilisation, supporting the health of marine ecosystems, are clashing with those to increase omega-3 fatty acids ( n− 3 LC-PUFA) consumption and promoting human health. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483746