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the poor and vulnerable. Addressing child and maternal health issues within the context of the economic crisis is one key … countries, child and maternal health-related indicators tend to be disturbing despite the rapid growth rates in many of these … countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be problematic, and …
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the poor and vulnerable. Addressing child and maternal health issues within the context of the economic crisis is one key … countries, child and maternal health-related indicators tend to be disturbing despite the rapid growth rates in many of these … countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be problematic, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286136
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 …
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populations, particularly the poor and vulnerable. Addressing child and maternal health issues within the context of the economic … South Asian countries, child and maternal health-related indicators tend to be disturbing despite the rapid growth rates in … many of these countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653162
populations, particularly the poor and vulnerable. Addressing child and maternal health issues within the context of the economic … South Asian countries, child and maternal health-related indicators tend to be disturbing despite the rapid growth rates in … many of these countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653179
populations, particularly the poor and vulnerable. Addressing child and maternal health issues within the context of the economic … South Asian countries, child and maternal health-related indicators tend to be disturbing despite the rapid growth rates in … many of these countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653185
We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204606
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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with frailty among older adults using a large, nationally representative cohort of community-dwelling Chinese sample. 6 …,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 risk factors in … status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine the association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859289
We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061957