overweight and obesity. Methods: Longitudinal data from post- (T2) and follow-up (T3) measurements of a school-based health … childhood overweight and obesity by half. Longitudinal differences were examined with the McNemar test for general WTP and the … income, and those with abdominally obese children were significant predictors of general WTP at T3. Median amount of WTP at T …

children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of …

Obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions around the globe and especially Canada. Obesity carries the risk of … obtaining many other chronic diseases, such as cancer and type 2 diabetes. As a result, obesity carries a great economic burden … addressing rising child obesity rates in Alberta. This paper determined that a successful policy program would: (1) address …