The incidence of young Latino children obesity is a public health concern. Among 5-year-olds, 16% of Latinos are obese …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing … health problem in Turkey at all levels of education. Further, alcohol consumption and schooling are positively related and it …This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women …