Epidemiology
Low-Income, Hungry Children Sick More Often
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 27th, 2001
A recent study calls for urgency in meeting this objective by showing that preschool and school-age children from low-income families have higher rates of poor health and suffer greater iron deficiency than high-income children.
Katherine Alaimo, MS, PhD, University of Michigan, and colleagues report that children whose families sometimes or often do not have enough food to eat are more likely to have poorer health and experience frequent stomachaches and...
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