-specificity of the black-white obesity gap has received relatively little attention. In the National Health and Nutrition Examination …

(quantity) and amount of nutrition per child (quality). This leads to a theory of pre-industrial growth where body size as well …

increased school emphasis on health promotion affects academic performance. Although education and health promotion are … incentives to improve student health increase the impact of school-based programs on student health outcomes, but may also lead …

On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the … nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid … urbanization taking place throughout the developing world and in targeting resources appropriately to raise population health. We …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships …