Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to … being the main driver. This highlights the importance of considering the food environment to inform public health policies …

also affected Peru between 2006 and 2008. This therefore is also a quantification of the nutritional and subsequent …

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

Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related …