Using panel data from Peru, the paper investigates the determinants of time allocation of boys and girls to schooling, housework and income-generating activities. Specifically, it explores whether sickness, employment of adult women, infrastructure and female headship have different impacts on the time use of boys and girls. Girls mostly engage in housework and boys mostly work outside the home...

this study was carried out to compare the effect between nutrition education intervention and non-nutrition education intervention on awareness regarding iron deficiency among schooling adolescents in tanah merah, one of rural district in kelantan, malaysia.this study which was started in year 2010 involved 280 respondents (223 girls, 57 boys, age: 16 yr) from schools in tanah merah. the select...

BACKGROUND Anemia is still one of India's major public health problems, especially among adolescent girls. OBJECTIVE To investigate the severity and distribution of anemia among Indian adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 years and its association with socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors. METHODS The study used data from the District Level Household Survey, round 11, 2002-04, conducted und...

Copyright © 2013 Alex C. Garn et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study investigated underserved adolescent girls' perceptions of the motivational climate in relationship to their perceptions of competence ...

This mixed-methods study examined gender differences in the social motivation and friendship experiences of adolescent boys and girls with autism relative to those without autism, all educated within special education settings. Autistic girls showed similar social motivation and friendship quality to non-autistic girls, while autistic boys reported having both qualitatively different friendship...

BACKGROUND The positive association between parental socioeconomic position (PSEP) and health among adolescents may be partly explained by dietary behaviour. We investigated the associations between fruit intake, vegetable intake, energy-dense food intake, the Healthy Nutrition Score for Kids and Youth (HuSKY) and parental education in a nationwide, cluster-randomized sample of adolescents in G...

BackgroundNutrition behaviors of adolescent girls is of serious health concerns. Although nutrition education interventions in Iran have met with some success, most of them could not promote nutrition behavioral changes. The aim of our study is to determine a school-based nutrition education intervention to improve adolescents’ nutrition behaviors and behavioral mediators based on the social co...