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 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 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 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.

scholarly journals Distribution of wealth-stratified inequalities on maternal and child health parameters and influences of maternal-related factors on improvements in child health survival rate in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
pp. 136749352090966
Author(s):  
Rashidul Alam Mahumud ◽  
Jeff Gow ◽  
Abdur Razzaque Sarker ◽  
Marufa Sultana ◽  
Golam Hossain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Demographic And Health Surveys ◽  
Maternal Risk ◽  
Under Five ◽  
And Child Health ◽  
Health Parameters

This study investigates the influence of household socioeconomic status and maternal risk factors and health-care service availability on changes in the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in Bangladesh. Potential risk factors that influence U5MRs were investigated using multilevel logistic regression analysis and 29,697 data points from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys, 2004–2014. Maternal and child health parameters such as childhood morbidity, low vaccination coverage, poor utilization of perinatal care, and malnutrition were found to be more concentrated in poorer households. Pooled estimates indicated that the aggregate odds of U5MR risk declined by 18% to 2007 to 38% to 2014 compared to 2004. However, inadequate antenatal care, short birth interval, primiparity, illiteracy, delayed conception, and low socioeconomic status were significantly associated with a higher risk of under-five mortality. The magnitude of inequality using these measures were significantly associated with large variations in U5MR changes. Although a significant reduction in U5MR in Bangladesh was found in this study, substantial socioeconomic variations still persist. The analysis suggests that decreasing inequality in society is required for further reductions in child mortality. This will help to achieve a more equitable distribution of child and neonatal outcomes and assist the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals 3.2 by 2030.

scholarly journals Extending Maternity Leave and Early Childhood Health in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kien Le
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Child Health

This paper explores the relationship between extending maternity leave and child health. To quantify the relationship of interest, we exploit the expansion of maternity leave in Zimbabwe Labour Amendment Act of 2005 that went into effect in December 2005. We find statistical evidence on the positive association between extending maternity leave and child health. Quantitatively, those exposed to the maternity leave extension grow 0.522 standard dеviations taller for their age, weigh 0.959 standard dеviations more for their age, and weigh 0.580 standard dеviations more for their height. The findings emphasize the significance of increasing maternity leave in enhancing child health.

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