Background In recent decades, the prevalence of obesity in children has increased
dramatically. This worldwide epidemic has important consequences, including psychiatric …

Background Countdown to 2015 tracks progress towards achievement of Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, with particular emphasis on within-country inequalities …

Background Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction
of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in …

Background Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme,
India has the world's worst level of child malnutrition. Despite India's 50% increase in GDP …

Equity remains poorly conceptualised in current nutrition frameworks and policy
approaches. We draw on existing literatures to present a novel Nutrition Equity Framework …

Background Achievement of global health goals will require assessment of progress not
only nationally but also for population subgroups. We aimed to assess how the magnitude of …

Objective: To determine whether Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) or cytomegalovirus (CMV)
seropositivity is associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) in blacks and Hispanics and to what …

Understanding the distribution of socioeconomic status (SES) and its temporal dynamics
within a population is critical to ensure that policies and interventions adequately and …

Sustainable development, a foundation of the post‐2015 global agenda, depends on
healthy and productive citizens. The origins of adult health begin early in life, stemming from …

Pediatric obesity is one of the most relevant health issues of the last century. Obesity-related
short and long-term consequences are responsible of a large amount of economic cost. In …