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India is clearly far along in the nutrition transition. This paper shows that there have been rapid increases in the …, even as childhood undernutrition remains a public health problem. These have important consequences for the design of … public health systems, especially in rural India. At the same time, the intra-household dual burden of malnutrition is also …
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-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A …-related health. …
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The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have been about 162 cm in the 17th century. This extremely short stature implies that "the crisis of the 17th century" had an immense impact on the human organism itself. The...
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We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …
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disadvantages in health and mental development. We distribute a durable device for home iron fortification of meals, called the …’s baseline health and the interventions’ effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language …
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aimed at improving delivery of primary health and nutrition services to children and pregnant women. Using a village level … healthcare delivery and health outcomes: information provision about health service entitlements and facilitation of collective …
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We study the impact of a Canadian prenatal nutrition program on child health at birth. The objective of the "oeuf … significant. While the cost of the program is equivalent to the comparable United States Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women …
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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …
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. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and …
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Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …
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