scholarly journals Household expenditure and child health in Vietnam: analysis of longitudinal data

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Trong-Anh Trinh ◽  
Preety Srivastava ◽  
Sarah Brown
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Household Expenditure ◽  
Alternative Measure ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Child Health

Abstract While the relationship between socioeconomic status and child health has been studied extensively in developed countries, evidence is limited for developing countries. This study makes an important contribution by examining the relationship between child health and household socioeconomic status in Vietnam, using household expenditure as an alternative measure. This also allows us to explore the mechanisms via which income affects child health, in which household consumption arguably plays a crucial role. We employ different measures of health that allow us to examine both long-run and short-run effects, and two alternative instrumental variables, the unemployment rate and rainfall deviation, to address the potential endogeneity of household expenditure. We find evidence of a strong positive impact of household expenditure on child health and the findings are consistent across age groups. Specifically, a 10% increase in expenditure will result in a weight gain of 213–541 g in a “typical” child. We also explore the effect of a range of exogenous adverse economic shocks on children's health.

scholarly journals Urbanization and Child Health Outcomes in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 586-603
Author(s):  
Olufunmilayo Olayemi Jemiluyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Child Health Outcomes ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Child Health

Against the rising trend of urbanization in Nigeria and the accompanying dramatic changes in the urbanization process, this study explores the health advantage of urbanization in Nigeria. The study specifically examines the relationship between various child health outcomes. Secondary data on neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortalities were used to measure child health outcomes. By obtaining cointegration among the collected data, the study investigates the long-run relationships between the degree of urbanization and the various child health outcomes using the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares(FM-OLS) estimator. The results suggest the existence of positive relationships between urbanization and child health indicators. In particular, the results show that there exist child health advantages of urbanization, with urbanization having reducing impacts on the mortality indicators. Also, public health expenditure, literacy rate, and health aids are negatively correlated with measures of children mortality. In all the estimated models, the economic growth proxy by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has an insignificant effect on all the measures of child health outcomes. The result implies the need to pay attention to the urbanization process for an effective health plan.

scholarly journals The relationship between mother's socioeconomic status and child health

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Mahdi Shahraki ◽  
Lotfali Agheli ◽  
Abbas Assari Arani ◽  
Hossein Sadeqi ◽  
Simin Ghaderi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Child Health ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Child Health

scholarly journals Profiles of Risk: Maternal Health, Socioeconomic Status, and Child Health

2013 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Halliday Hardie ◽  
Nancy S. Landale
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Maternal Health ◽  
Child Health ◽  
And Child Health

scholarly journals The importance of knowledge for wellbeing of society in the contemporary world

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1136-1159
Author(s):  
Dusan Markovic ◽  
Mrdjan Mladjan
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
National Competitiveness ◽  
Long Run ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Physical Resources ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship

Following the recent wave of globalization, the possession of different types of knowledge became even more important for economic development than the possession of physical resources. The ability of a society to adopt existing and create new knowledge thus gained fundamental importance for its wellbeing. In this paper, we identify important aspects of the relationship between education, creation of knowledge, economic growth, as well as both material and immate?rial wellbeing of a society. We describe potential problems that prevent societies from maximizing the benefit from the effort its members invest in acquiring knowledge. The problems of failure of the national markets for education as well as the global migrations which lead to drain of knowledge towards economically highly developed countries are especially analyzed. In the long run, they lead to a decline in both national competitiveness and different aspects of the immate?rial wellbeing. As the basis for solving these problems we propose a combination of economic theory and the concept of solidarity between more and less devel?oped countries, individuals and societies of their origin, respecting the free will of individuals.

Trichomonas Vaginalis (TV) Infection and Its Association With Risk of Cervical Cancer and HPV Status

2019 ◽  
Vol 152 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S92-S93
Author(s):  
Herleen Rai ◽  
Wissam Dahoud
Keyword(s):  
Trichomonas Vaginalis ◽  
Cervical Screening ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Hpv Infection ◽  
Hpv Status ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intraepithelial Lesions

Abstract Background The prevalence of trichomonas vaginalis (TV) infection is low in developed countries and may be due to its incidental diagnosis and treatment during routine screening. Many countries are adopting a new model based on testing for high-risk (HR) human papillomavirus (HPV) instead of cytology. HPV is known to be associated with squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL). There is limited and conflicting literature on the relationship between TV and SIL. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of TV in different age groups and evaluate the association between TV with SIL, BV (bacterial vaginosis), and HPV infection. Design Retrospective study for cytological histologic correlation was performed on 10,546 cases dated between January 2012 and December 2017. HPV results were available in 7,081 cases. Results The age range was 15 to 84 with a mean of 49 years; 249 patients were TV positive (2.3%). The prevalence was highest in 30 to 65 age group (71.5%). HPV was present in 4,386/7,081 cases (61.9%). The associated between TV and HPV infection was not significant (P < .07). There was a significant association between TV and BV infection (P < .001). In total, 4,649/10,546 patients showed squamous abnormalities (44%), of which 52.6% were TV positive and 43.9% were TV negative. CIN2-3/SCC was significantly greater in TV-positive versus TV-negative patients (P < .007). HPV-positive patients that were TV positive showed more squamous abnormalities than those that were TV negative (P < .043). TV-positive patients with ASCH showed higher grade lesions (CIN2-3/SCC) on follow-up than TV-negative patients (P < .003). Conclusion TV is more common among patients with BV and HPV infection and significantly associated with squamous abnormalities. HPV and ASCH patients with TV showed significant squamous abnormalities. Although TV can be detected incidentally through cytology-based cervical screening, a transition to HPV testing is likely to result in increasing TV prevalence over time.

scholarly journals Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Currie
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
Parental Socioeconomic Status ◽  
And Child Health

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the literature. This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental socioeconomic status affects child health? And, what is the evidence relating child health to future educational and labor market outcomes? I show that there is now strong evidence of both links, suggesting that health could play a role in the intergenerational transmission of economic status.

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