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This study confirmed the connection between poor nutrition and academic performance. It also identified low-income children as being at particular risk of poor nutrition. This study supports the need for programs to improve childhood nutritional status.
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Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries,"
IZA Discussion Papers 1482, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). (2005). Available at http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp1482.html
Investment behavior and combined income of two people makes it difficult to link better health with economic prosperity. Heterogeneity in the sample also affected the survey results. This study highlights some of the factors that may affect this research study.
Thomas, D. And Frankenberg, E. "Health, nutrition, and prosperity: a microeconomic perspective." Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (2002). 80 (2): 106-113.
This study, conducted by the World Health Organization used several techniques, including laboratory and field studies upon which to base their findings. Laboratory work and fieldwork confirmed the conclusion that nutritional deficiency, particularly iron deficiency, results in reduced work capacity and reduced work output.
Ulijaszek, S. "Maternal work and childhood nutritional status among the Puran, Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Human Biology. (2003). 15 (4): 472-478 study among an isolated group, with a simple subsistence diet revealed that there is...
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