Iván Mejía‐guevara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3880627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iván Mejía‐guevara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iván |
| FAMILY NAME | Mejía‐guevara |
| SIGNATURE | GUEVARA I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Child Health Evaluative Sciences and the Centre for Global Child Health SickKids Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children Toronto ON Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Distinct clusters of stunted children in India
Childhood stunting is often conceptualised as a singular concept (i.e., stunted or not), and such an approach implies similarity in the experiences of children who are stunted. Furthermore, risk factors for stunting are often treated in isolation, and limited research has examined how multiple risk factors interact together. Our aim was to examine whether there are subgroups among stunted children, and if parental characteristics influence the li…
Rethinking policy perspectives on childhood stunting
Stunting and chronic undernutrition among children in South Asia remain a major unresolved global health issue. There are compelling intrinsic and moral reasons to ensure that children attain their optimal growth potential facilitated via promotion of healthy living conditions. Investments in efforts to ensure that children's growth is not faltered also have substantial instrumental benefits in terms of cognitive and economic development. Using t…
The Effect of Education on the Demographic Dividend
The impact of population structure on economic growth has been studied in recent decades using different methods to estimate the so-called demographic dividend. Besides, education has been pointed out as a key factor in economic growth. We propose a decomposition of the demographic dividend, into age and education effects. We illustrate the potentialities of the method, deriving an application to Mexico and Spain over the period 1970-2100. To tha…
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Rethinking policy perspectives on childhood stunting
Stunting and chronic undernutrition among children in South Asia remain a major unresolved global health issue. There are compelling intrinsic and moral reasons to ensure that children attain their optimal growth potential facilitated via promotion of healthy living conditions. Investments in efforts to ensure that children's growth is not faltered also have substantial instrumental benefits in terms of cognitive and economic development. Using t…
The Effect of Education on the Demographic Dividend
The impact of population structure on economic growth has been studied in recent decades using different methods to estimate the so-called demographic dividend. Besides, education has been pointed out as a key factor in economic growth. We propose a decomposition of the demographic dividend, into age and education effects. We illustrate the potentialities of the method, deriving an application to Mexico and Spain over the period 1970-2100. To tha…
Distinct clusters of stunted children in India
Childhood stunting is often conceptualised as a singular concept (i.e., stunted or not), and such an approach implies similarity in the experiences of children who are stunted. Furthermore, risk factors for stunting are often treated in isolation, and limited research has examined how multiple risk factors interact together. Our aim was to examine whether there are subgroups among stunted children, and if parental characteristics influence the li…
Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Age structure (1 work) · Consumption (sociology) (1 work) · Demographic dividend (1 work) · Demographic economics (1 work)