The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.
Nutrition
Scholarly Publications
Prevalence and risk factors for Taenia solium cysticercosis in school-aged children: A school based study in western Sichuan, People’s Republic of China
May 2018
Taenia solium cysticercosis affects millions of impoverished people worldwide and can cause neurocysticercosis, an infection of the central nervous system which is potentially fatal.
Neglected Tropical Disease in China: The Case of Neurocystocercosis in Tibetan Farming Communities
October 2017
Affecting more than one billion people around the world, neglected tropical diseases are a group of diseases which mainly occur in poor populations living in tropical and subtropical environments....
To Board or Not to Board: Evidence from Nutrition, Health and Education Outcomes of Students in Rural China
May 2016
The debate over whether boarding school is beneficial for students still exists in both developing and developed countries.
Other Publications
News
The Economist Writes About REAP's Nutrition Project
June 2014
A recent article in The Economist about malnutrition in rural China cites REAP's research on anemia.
Stanford Scope Reports on REAP's Solutions to Childhood Anemia
June 2014
REAP's efforts on childhood anemia were featured in an article in Scope, an award-winning medical blog produced by writers at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Scott Rozelle on How Agriculture Vitalized China's Economy
April 2013
Over the last thirty years, China’s rural income per capita has risen an astounding 20 times.
Events
Jenny Bowen: What China’s Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains
May 13, 2014
Author Jenny Bowen will speak about her new book, "Wish You Happy Forever: What China’s Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains," at this special FSI and REAP Seminar
China and Africa: Are there Lessons for Development?
April 17, 2013
The lost decades for China in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s look remarkably like the lost decades of Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.
Teaming Up to Learn How to Overcome Anemia: Nutritional Education and Mobile Messaging Design for Household Engagement
January 25, 2013
This study seeks to understand whether developing an innovative curriculum kit that will supplement health instruction for 3rd to 6th grade students and teachers in underdeveloped areas of rural...
Projects
Nutrition, Health and Education _ Migration
Check out our latest work on: > Baby Nutrition > Uncorrected Vision > Intestinal Worms > Text Messaging for Health Health & Education: What's the Link...
English
Policy Related Research - REAP 2013
Official Policy Briefs(Submitted to China’s State Council) Research and Policy Recommendations on the Situation of Infant Malnutrition and Underdevelopment in Poor AreasAdvisory for Implementing a...
English
Paying for Performance
There is a strong relationship between poor health and the achievement gap. Gaping rural-urban inequality is a major challenge facing the rapidly developing Chinese society today.
English
Multimedia
Healthy Future: Breastfeeding Tutorial in Chinese
April 2019
Video Production Credit: Digital MEdIC Program of the Center for Health Education and Stanford Medicine, Stanford UniversityThis video was created by the Digital MEdIC Program and the Rural Education Action Program at Stanford University to train...
Healthy Future: Breastfeeding Tutorial in English
April 2019
Video Production Credit: Digital MEdIC Program of the Center for Health Education and Stanford Medicine, Stanford UniversityThis video was created by the Digital MEdIC Program at Stanford University as part of a series of videos that highlight the...
Seeing is Learning: Vision Care for China's Rural Students
July 2014
Learn how the REAP team tested the vision of more than 30,000 children and passed out 10,000 pairs of glasses.
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