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Lhachimi, Stefan K. - 2008

Der Tod macht alle Menschen gleich, dennoch sind nicht alle gleichmäßig betroffen. Unterschiede in der Sterblichkeit …. Eine Analyse der allgemeinen Sterblichkeit von Deutschen Bürgern im Alter von 20 bis 49 im Jahre 2004 wurde durchgeführt … die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland stärker einem Nord\Ost-Sued\West-Trend als einem einem Ost-West-Trend. Das Pro …

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Food supply in the European Union from 1961 to 2003

Neier, Anna-Magdalena - 2009

In dieser Studie über die Nahrungsmittelverfügbarkeit in der Europäischen Union mit den Mitgliederstaaten von 2009, werden Food Balance Sheets (FBS) der Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) von 1961 bis 2003 analysiert. Obwohl die Zuverlässigkeit und Präzision der FBS Daten stark von der...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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