How does schooling influence maternal health practices?: Evidence from Nepal

The authors deal with a causal influence of formal education on health. This article reports the results of a survey designed to test a theoretical model positing that literacy skills acquired by girls in school are retained into their adult years, facilitating their exposure to public health messag...

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Published in:Comparative education review 2005-11, Vol.49 (4), p.512-533
Main Authors: Rowe, Meredith L, Thapa, Kumar Bijaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asien
Befragung
Befragungstechnik
Behavior modeling
Bildungsniveau
Child Health
Children
Developing Nations
Educational Attainment
Educational Benefits
Educational Research
Empirische Untersuchung
Entwicklungsland
Familie
Foreign Countries
Formale Bildung
Forschungsstand
Frau
Functional Literacy
Gesundheitserziehung
Gesundheitsfürsorge
Gesundheitspflege
Gesundheitspolitik
Health Behavior
Health Education
Health surveys
Infant Mortality
Language Proficiency
Literacy
Literacy Education
Modeling
Mothers
Mutter
Mädchen
National Surveys
Nepal
Outcomes of Education
Prenatal Care
Public Health
Reading Comprehension
School surveys
Schulbesuch
Schwangerschaft
Socioeconomic Status
Socioeconomics
Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft
Verhalten
Womens Education
Womens health
Young Children
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Summary:The authors deal with a causal influence of formal education on health. This article reports the results of a survey designed to test a theoretical model positing that literacy skills acquired by girls in school are retained into their adult years, facilitating their exposure to public health messages in the media, which in turn influence the health knowledge affecting their health behavior as mothers. This survey was conducted in Nepal, a low-income country in which both mass schooling and demographic transition are recent developments, using direct assessment of literacy skills instead of the self-reports or imputation from school attainment levels often used in demographic and health surveys. (DIPF/Orig./Ba.).
ISSN:0010-4086
1545-701X
DOI:10.1086/432769