کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
991988 935683 2010 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Adult BMI as a Health and Nutritional Inequality Measure: Applications at Macro and Micro Levels
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Adult BMI as a Health and Nutritional Inequality Measure: Applications at Macro and Micro Levels
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryWe explore the suitability of the adult Body Mass Index (BMI) to measure health and nutritional inequalities between and within households. The paper applies a macro analysis comparing female BMIs at the country level and a micro-analysis comparing females’ and males’ BMI in Vietnam. At macro level, we estimated an analogue of the Kuznets curve finding a U-shaped relation between development (Human Development Index) and health and nutritional inequality (female BMI). At micro level, we use the panel data characteristics of the Vietnam dataset and show how income improvements registered in the 1990s benefited males considerably more than females.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: World Development - Volume 38, Issue 7, July 2010, Pages 1012–1023
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