Author: Ernesto Pollitt
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book examines scientific data correlating children's nutrition and health status with school performance. It argues that nutrition and health are important factors in determining educational outcomes and should figure prominently in efforts to improve the quality of education and the "teachability" of children.
Malnutrition and Infection in the Classroom
Author: Ernesto Pollitt
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book examines scientific data correlating children's nutrition and health status with school performance. It argues that nutrition and health are important factors in determining educational outcomes and should figure prominently in efforts to improve the quality of education and the "teachability" of children.
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book examines scientific data correlating children's nutrition and health status with school performance. It argues that nutrition and health are important factors in determining educational outcomes and should figure prominently in efforts to improve the quality of education and the "teachability" of children.
Human Nutrition and Parasitic Infection: Volume 107, Parasitology Supplement 1993
Author: D. W. T. Crompton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521456012
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This wide-ranging collection covers such topics as: nutrition support and HIV; malarial parasites and antioxidant nutrients; the impact of schistosomiases on human nutrition; ascariasis and childhood malnutrition; and hookworm infections and human iron metabolism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521456012
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This wide-ranging collection covers such topics as: nutrition support and HIV; malarial parasites and antioxidant nutrients; the impact of schistosomiases on human nutrition; ascariasis and childhood malnutrition; and hookworm infections and human iron metabolism.
The Geohelminths
Author: Celia V. Holland
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306473836
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The soil-transmitted nematode parasites, or geohelminths, are - called because they have a direct life cycle, which involves no intermediate hosts or vectors, and are transmitted by faecal contamination of soil, foodstuffs and water supplies. They all inhabit the intestine in their adult stages but most species also have tissue-migratoryjuvenile stages, so the disease manifestations they cause can therefore be both local and systemic. The geohelminths together present an enormous infection burden on humanity. Those which cause the most disease in humans are divided into three main groupings, Ascaris lumbricoides (the large roundworm), Trichuris trichiura (whipworm), and the blood-feeding hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus ), and this book concentrates on these. These intestinal parasites are highly prevalent worldwide, A. lumbricoides is estimated to infect 1471 million (over a quarter ofthe world’s population), hookworms 1277 million, and T. trichiura 1049 million. The highly pathogenic Strongyloides species might also be classified as geohelminths, but they are not dealt with here because the understanding of their epidemiology, immunology and genetics has not advanced as rapidly as for the others. This is primarily because of the often covert nature of the infections, with consequent difficulties for analysis. If there is ever a second edition of this book, then there will hopefully be much to say about this infection.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306473836
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The soil-transmitted nematode parasites, or geohelminths, are - called because they have a direct life cycle, which involves no intermediate hosts or vectors, and are transmitted by faecal contamination of soil, foodstuffs and water supplies. They all inhabit the intestine in their adult stages but most species also have tissue-migratoryjuvenile stages, so the disease manifestations they cause can therefore be both local and systemic. The geohelminths together present an enormous infection burden on humanity. Those which cause the most disease in humans are divided into three main groupings, Ascaris lumbricoides (the large roundworm), Trichuris trichiura (whipworm), and the blood-feeding hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus ), and this book concentrates on these. These intestinal parasites are highly prevalent worldwide, A. lumbricoides is estimated to infect 1471 million (over a quarter ofthe world’s population), hookworms 1277 million, and T. trichiura 1049 million. The highly pathogenic Strongyloides species might also be classified as geohelminths, but they are not dealt with here because the understanding of their epidemiology, immunology and genetics has not advanced as rapidly as for the others. This is primarily because of the often covert nature of the infections, with consequent difficulties for analysis. If there is ever a second edition of this book, then there will hopefully be much to say about this infection.
The Economic Rationale for Investing in Nutrition in Developing Countries
Author: Jere Richard Behrman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nutrition
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nutrition
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Health Economics in Development
Author: Philip Musgrove
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821355701
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This publication contains a collection of papers which span 21 years of the author's thought and experiences regarding the subject on health economics, working at the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Bank. The papers consider a range of topics including: the connection between public health and economics; the issue of equity in health; effectiveness and efficiency, particularly in relation to communicable diseases and malnutrition; health financing; how the burden of ill health is measured; the roles of the state and the market in health. The empirical material refers to a variety of specific health problems or interventions, including: smoking, polio, malaria, immunisation and various forms of malnutrition.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821355701
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This publication contains a collection of papers which span 21 years of the author's thought and experiences regarding the subject on health economics, working at the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Bank. The papers consider a range of topics including: the connection between public health and economics; the issue of equity in health; effectiveness and efficiency, particularly in relation to communicable diseases and malnutrition; health financing; how the burden of ill health is measured; the roles of the state and the market in health. The empirical material refers to a variety of specific health problems or interventions, including: smoking, polio, malaria, immunisation and various forms of malnutrition.
In Her Lifetime
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309054303
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The relative lack of information on determinants of disease, disability, and death at major stages of a woman's lifespan and the excess morbidity and premature mortality that this engenders has important adverse social and economic ramifications, not only for Sub-Saharan Africa, but also for other regions of the world as well. Women bear much of the weight of world production in both traditional and modern industries. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, women contribute approximately 60 to 80 percent of agricultural labor. Worldwide, it is estimated that women are the sole supporters in 18 to 30 percent of all families, and that their financial contribution in the remainder of families is substantial and often crucial. This book provides a solid documentary base that can be used to develop an agenda to guide research and health policy formulation on female healthâ€"both for Sub-Saharan Africa and for other regions of the developing world. This book could also help facilitate ongoing, collaboration between African researchers on women's health and their U.S. colleagues. Chapters cover such topics as demographics, nutritional status, obstetric morbidity and mortality, mental health problems, and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309054303
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The relative lack of information on determinants of disease, disability, and death at major stages of a woman's lifespan and the excess morbidity and premature mortality that this engenders has important adverse social and economic ramifications, not only for Sub-Saharan Africa, but also for other regions of the world as well. Women bear much of the weight of world production in both traditional and modern industries. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, women contribute approximately 60 to 80 percent of agricultural labor. Worldwide, it is estimated that women are the sole supporters in 18 to 30 percent of all families, and that their financial contribution in the remainder of families is substantial and often crucial. This book provides a solid documentary base that can be used to develop an agenda to guide research and health policy formulation on female healthâ€"both for Sub-Saharan Africa and for other regions of the developing world. This book could also help facilitate ongoing, collaboration between African researchers on women's health and their U.S. colleagues. Chapters cover such topics as demographics, nutritional status, obstetric morbidity and mortality, mental health problems, and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.
Education and Social Change in China: Inequality in a Market Economy
Author: Gerard A. Postiglione
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317472330
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to urban migration, and lingering poverty in remote areas. But some argue that state policies have not sufficiently addressed inequitable practices, and that schools actually perpetuate and reproduce inequities, giving rise to a new system of social stratification driven more by market forces than socialist principles. Featuring all original, previously unpublished material, this volume examines this argument through analysis of selected aspects of educational stratification in China during the reform era. Chapters focus on the new urban middle class, poor rural residents, the migrant population in urban areas, rural girls, and ethnic minorities. The contributors are established scholars in the field, and they build a conceptual framework for assessing the degree to which China's educational reforms are inclusive, equitable, and integrative across social categories and groups.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317472330
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to urban migration, and lingering poverty in remote areas. But some argue that state policies have not sufficiently addressed inequitable practices, and that schools actually perpetuate and reproduce inequities, giving rise to a new system of social stratification driven more by market forces than socialist principles. Featuring all original, previously unpublished material, this volume examines this argument through analysis of selected aspects of educational stratification in China during the reform era. Chapters focus on the new urban middle class, poor rural residents, the migrant population in urban areas, rural girls, and ethnic minorities. The contributors are established scholars in the field, and they build a conceptual framework for assessing the degree to which China's educational reforms are inclusive, equitable, and integrative across social categories and groups.
Health and Economic Growth
Author: Guillem López i Casasnovas
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262122764
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Leading international researchers offer theoretical and empirical microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives on the ways a population's health status affects a country's economic growth.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262122764
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Leading international researchers offer theoretical and empirical microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives on the ways a population's health status affects a country's economic growth.
Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Proceedings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description