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Hubbard, Mai Noguchi.

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Effects of maternal employment and child care on the health of young children.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Effects of maternal employment and child care on the health of young children./
Author:	Hubbard, Mai Noguchi.
Description:	184 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0263.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-01A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3387722
ISBN:	9781109539622

Effects of maternal employment and child care on the health of young children.
Hubbard, Mai Noguchi.

Effects of maternal employment and child care on the health of young children. - 184 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0263.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.

Over the past several decades, the United States has witnessed a significant increase in the prevalence of overweight and obese children. Given that the immediate and long-term implications of obesity on a child's physical and emotional well-being can be severe, biomedical researchers, social scientists, and the general public have made an aggressive push towards finding an explanation for what some have now deemed a national health epidemic. Despite a large body of empirical research on the impact of environmental, behavioral, and societal factors on the obesity increase in the past thirty years, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to examining the impact of one notable change occurring during the same time period: an increase in women's labor force participation, and consequently an increase in child care usage. This three chapter dissertation examines the effects of maternal employment and usage of non-parental after- and/or before-school supervision on elementary school-age children's body mass statuses.

ISBN: 9781109539622Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Effects of maternal employment and child care on the health of young children.
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