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OBJECTIVE: To describe the effects of social inequities on the health and nutrition of children in low and middle …, differential health outcomes, and differential consequences. The search of the PubMed database since 1990 identified 244 articles … related to the theme. Results were also analyzed from almost 100 recent national surveys, including Demographic Health Surveys …
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Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...
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Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...
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with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller statures allow weight to be distributed over larger areas, and height is … majority of net nutrition is beyond an individual's control, and stature inequality is smaller than weight because it is … genetically determined. Current net nutrition was positively related to age, however, inversely related to regional inequality …
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This paper aims to investigate the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years … examine the pattern of child health inequality. The results of the anthropometric measures show that 1.5% of children in … general disparity in child health is low across demographic characteristics. Inequality of opportunity in Tunisia is …
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