covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …

Background: Malnutrition is a prevalent public health concern in Ghana. While studies have identified factors that … inequality. Thirdly, decomposition analysis was conducted to determine the role of mother's education and health insurance …, respectively. Finally, health insurance contributed about 1.91 and 1.03 % to inequality in HAZ and WAZ, respectively. Conclusion …

children can clearly implicate the degree of short term exposure to risk and disturbances and long term malnutrition. Moreover … about 55% of children in the three towns are vulnerable to malnutrition regardless of living standard of their family …. Children and family related assets, length of breast feed, food intake level, growth environment and education level are …

country`s health infrastructure that was instrumental in increasing preventive and primary health care expenditures. Using … empirical evidence, this paper discusses the effect of this expansion in health infrastructure on child nutrition in Peru, as …-poor bias. The estimated coefficient for health infrastructure in less endowed districts is 10 times higher than that in the …