Growing Children: The relationship between food insecurity and child growth and development.

This dissertation examined the relationship between food security status and cultural congruence and indicators of child growth and development in a rural mountain town in Costa Rica. Results show that children from food secure households are significantly shorter and shorter-legged than their food...

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Main Author: Ruiz, Ernesto
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2014
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5299
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6495&context=etd