13 However, the bulk of the research in this area has been cross-sectional; thus, the long-term effect of food insecurity in childhood on health remains poorly understood. It is also unclear whether the childhood experience of hunger leads to its own adverse health outcomes independent of the...
Here we report a pooled analysis of 21 longitudinal cohorts from 10 low- or middle-income countries (LMICs) in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, in which length and weight were measured monthly in children of 0–24 months. Our primary objectives were to produce large-scale...
Child poverty and the lack of rights accorded to young children in the United States are framed within a broader, international, human rights context. Persistent poverty and the lack of access to high-quality child care are analyzed as pervasive threats to young children’s well-being and health...
8 With the political crises of the first two decades of the 2000s, the freezing of resources for social programs and the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty worsened in Brazil and undernutrition and hunger returned to the debate table.9,10 This study aimed to review the historical ...
For the purposes of population-wide attribution statistics, we also calculate the average effect of warmer ENSO in the average country, without separating the sample by whether warm ENSO leads to dry or wet anomalies (Supplementary Table 5). The average effect across the sample suggests that warme...
Childhood hunger continues to plague the United States. With a small grant from America's Second Harvest we began a weekend feeding initiative called the BackPack Program, which seeks to reduce hunger among school-aged children by distribution of ready-to-eat food in backpacks for participants to...
permits its agents to insert derogatory and Page 12 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT even false data on the enemies, real and imag- lence in the schools has increased in the past National Center for Health Statistics." ined, of this band of fanatics into police flies. five years. 'Clearly, ...
is mostly for the baby's sake and provides much less libidinal satisfaction to the mother. It is clearly possible to raise children this way, particularly when they are very much wanted, but current statistics on childabuse suggest that in many cases, reliance on altruism for the establishment...
Johner Riehl: When we say it’s some “epidemic”, it’s interesting hearing the statistics at the beginning. Because one way to look at it is the, one in five kids, I guess that’s a lot to say that one in five kids are obese, but also means that 4 in 5 kids are not. You...
TheNo Child Left Behind Actmandates (without directly saying so) that teachers are to overcome all of these challenges without any changes taking place outside the public schools when hunger, homelessness, gang and crime statistics, child abuse, etc. impact a child’s life. ...