High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human … population health measured by infant mortality rate, child mortality rate, and the prevalence of undernourishment. We find that … rising food prices have a significant and adverse effect on all three health indicators in developing countries. Furthermore …

perceived as a reliable signal of wealth rather than beauty and health. Second, being obese facilitates access to credit: in a …

significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …

expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women creates positive selection in the health of the …

Although a substantial literature examines the relationship between culture and health in myriad individual contexts, a … health interventions. Drawing on 169 interviews with officials from three different nongovernmental organizations working on … health issues in multiple countries — Partners in Health, Oxfam America, and Sesame Workshop — we examine how these …