Correction to: Autonomy-induced preference, budget reallocation, and child health

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Budget allocation and the revealed social rate of time preference for health.

Appropriate decisions based on cost-effectiveness evaluations of health-care technologies depend upon the cost-effectiveness threshold and its rate of growth as well as some social rate of time preference for health. A more traditional approach to this problem is outlined before a social decision-making approach is developed, which demonstrates that social time preference for health is revealed...

A Comparative Effect of Child-to-Child and Health Educator to-Child Teaching Approaches on Nutritional Status in Elementary School Students

Introduction: Nutritional problems are one of the most important health issues among school-aged children, and modification of the nutritional status in children is as well important. Objective: Present study aims to determine the effectiveness of child to child teaching approach as compared to educator to child teaching approach on promotion of nutritional status of elementary school students...

A child psychiatric view on relations between classroom climate, school budget cuts and children’s mental health

Health economics and health preference concepts to orthopedics practitioners

The aim of this study was to describe concepts of health economics in order to update and provide the orthopedic practitioner decision making parameters based on preferences. Four basic types of studies of economical evaluation were presented (cost minimization analysis, cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness and cost-utility), as well as the origin, the concept, advantages and disadvantages of using...