Socio-economic influences on gender inequalities in child health in rural Bangladesh

Article Abstract:

A study on child growth in Bangladesh shows that socio-economic status and temporal factors effect sex differences in mortality, health, and nutrition. The female children from the lowest occupational status exhibit the greatest health disadvantages. Nutrition, morbidity, and efforts to seek treatment are similar for both males and females. Father's occupation and sex have a significant interactive effect on health during floods and droughts, but not during normal conditions. Landless female children show more improvement in health as compared to males after a disaster but worse nutritional status before or during a disaster than males.

Analysis, Children, Demographic aspects, Growth, Social status, Sex differences, Bangladesh

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Nutrition and the thyroid

Article Abstract:

The clinical, nutritional, cellular and molecular aspects of action in thyroid hormones were discussed in research papers submitted to the meeting on Nutrition and the Thyroid. Topics discussed included clinical and nutritional aspects, environmental and nutritional influences on thyroid hormones, iodine and cretinism, selenium and deiodinases, maternal-fetal relationships as well as other topics dwelling on the biochemical and cellular aspects of nutrition and the thyroid.

Thyroid hormones, Thyroid gland

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