One factor that may be important in explaining rising childhood obesity is food prices. This report explores the effect of food prices on children’s Body Mass Index (BMI) using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) and the Quarterly...

About 2.3 million children under the age of five are too short for their age An estimated 250,000 children under the age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition About half a million pregnant and lactating women suffer from anaemia

Our overarching goal is to understand critical determinants of low-income elderly Americans’ well being as measured by health status. We focus on whether and how elderly health status is affected by FSP participation, food sufficiency and other determinants. To do so we must first ascertain...

La poblacion rural mapuche, localizada fundamentalmente en la region de La Araucania, constituye uno de los segmentos sociales que actualmente mantiene mayores tasas de incidencia de la pobreza en Chile. Las politicas especificas hacia la poblacion mapuche han estado basadas durante las dos...

The UK Government’s Responsibility Deals (Food Network) seeks to promote healthier dietary choices by consumers through food industry-led product reformulation initiatives enhancing the availability of healthier foods. Such public-private partnerships based on voluntary action from the food...

A téma kutatása olyan szakterület részét jelenti, amely Magyarországon még nagyon szűk szegmenst alkot. A szerzők kvalitatív és kvantitatív módszereket alkalmaztak, melyek során egy országos, 1000 fős reprezentatív kérdőíves felmérést, valamint azok...

This research uses data from the 2005–2011 Agricultural Resource Management Survey and a two-part-model regression procedure to examine the impact of health insurance and other relevant socio-economic factors on the distribution of health care expenditures among U.S. farm households....