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 … upbringing, and hence taller, have healthier children, ceteris parabus. This finding is consistent with long run observations …

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. …

, quality, and choice of healthy food options to consumers. In turn this has significant implications for public health …. However, there are also significant health implications of such anti-competitive practices that seldom receive attention. This … paper hopes to draw attention to the potential public health issues that arise as a result of lack of competition in the …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

mobile phone service. It also includes a quantitative experiment with 517 participants to examine, under close to real …