Do Households Prioritise Children? Intra-Household Deprivation a Case Study of the South Pacific

Lanau, Alba; Fifita, Viliami

doi:10.1007/s12187-020-09729-5

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“…We anticipate that a mortality crisis will particularly affect children (with the exception of infants, protected by breastfeeding) and the elderly. These sub-groups are less physically equipped to deal with extreme conditions and children might receive less care in situations where resources are scarce, although the latter phenomenon is context-specific (Lanau and Fifita 2020). Gender discrimination can also exacerbate the uneven allocation of resources for girls.…”

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Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises

Vigezzi¹,

Aburto²,

Permanyer³

et al. 2022

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDLifespan variation has been attracting attention as a measure of population health and mortality. Several studies have highlighted its strong inverse relationship with life expectancy during periods of steady mortality decline, but this association weakens, and even reverses, when mortality does not improve equally over age. To date no study has comprehensively explored the behaviour of lifespan variation when mortality increases significantly. OBJECTIVEWe investigate lifespan variation trends around various mortality crises, focusing on agespecific contributions and sex differences. METHODSDrawing data from the Human Mortality Database and Meslé and Vallin's Ukrainian lifetables, we analyse five European epidemics and famines across three centuries. We use six measures of lifespan variation and adopt the linear integral method of decomposition. RESULTSDuring these crises, relative lifespan variation increases, while absolute variation declines, and subsequently both quickly revert to pre-crisis levels. We show that mortality at older ages leads to a temporary increase in absolute -but not relative -variation. The

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Section: Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises

Vigezzi¹,

Aburto²,

Permanyer³

et al. 2022

DemRes

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“…Adequate entitlements and access to resources give people the capabilities to improve their livelihoods, while inadequate access to resources such as energy adversely affects livelihoods for the poor and can lead to child poverty (Mulugetta et al, 2019 andLanau andFifita, 2020). Decades of progress in the advanced economies shows that their abundance of natural resources produced economy-wide prosperity, and historically, resource-poor economies have outperformed resource-rich countries (Auty, 2017).…”

Section: Natural Resources and Under-five Mortalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural resource effect on child health outcomes in a multifactor health production model in developing countries

Gani

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThis study investigates if wealth from natural resources impacts child health in developing countries.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology includes testing the effect of rents from natural resources on under-five mortality rates using a multifactor health production model for 57 developing nations. The panel estimation procedure was applied to data covering 2002 to 2017, disaggregated by non-renewable and renewable resources and low and medium human development countries.FindingsThe results provide strong evidence that wealth from total natural resources has not been associated with reductions in under-five mortality rates. However, disaggregation of the sample countries by natural resource constituents revealed that only the wealth of non-renewable is strongly inversely associated with under-five mortality rates. Further disaggregation of countries by the low and medium human development constituents revealed a statistically insignificant negative correlation of non-renewable resources wealth and under-five mortality in the low human development countries. In contrast, the results of the medium human development countries revealed that wealth from natural resources (both non-renewable and renewable) had not been associated with any reductions in under-five mortality rates. The results also confirm that immunization levels, nutrition, private spending on health care, air quality, urban living and countries closer to the equator are other strong correlates of under-five mortality rates in low human development countries.Social implicationsThe findings here have implications for the timely achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (to reduce under-five deaths to around 25 per 1,000 live births by 2030). Governments ought to ensure that incomes from the extractive sector are aligned in forms that promote and feed into improving child health wellbeing.Originality/valueThis research creates a shift from aggregate health wellbeing research agenda to investigate how specific aspects of human development can be linked to wealth from non-renewable and renewable natural resources in developing nations. It adds new knowledge and provides health and natural resources policymakers opportunities to combine their policies and synergize efforts to improve child health outcomes.

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“…We anticipate that a mortality crisis will particularly affect children (with the exception of infants, protected by breastfeeding) and the elderly. These sub-groups are physically less equipped to deal with extreme conditions and children might receive less care in situations where resources are scarce, although the latter phenomenon is contextspecific (Lanau and Fifita 2020). Gender discrimination can also exacerbate this uneven allocation of resources for girls.…”

Section: Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Divergent Trends of Lifespan Variation During Mortality Crises

Vigezzi¹,

Aburto²,

Permanyer³

et al. 2021

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Lifespan variation has been attracting increasingly greater attention as a measure of population health and mortality. Several studies have analysed periods of steady mortality decline, highlighting a strong inverse relationship between lifespan variation and life expectancy. Recent research has found that this association weakens, and even reverses, when mortality does not improve equally over age. However, to date no study has comprehensively explored the behaviour of lifespan variation when mortality increases significantly. Analysing three epidemics and two famines in Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, we find that, during these events, relative lifespan variation increases, while absolute variation declines, and that subsequently both quickly revert to pre-crisis levels. Using decomposition techniques, we show that mortality at older ages leads to a temporary increase in absolute – but not relative – variation. Moreover, female lifespan variation is less affected by the crises than that of males, because of the higher impact of infant and child mortality on male lifespan variation. By underlining different trends of lifespan variation by sex and indicator, we offer new insight into the consequences of mortality crises. Contrary to what is often asserted, we also show that the choice of lifespan variation indicator is not always inconsequential.

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Do Households Prioritise Children? Intra-Household Deprivation a Case Study of the South Pacific

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises

Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises

Natural resource effect on child health outcomes in a multifactor health production model in developing countries

Divergent Trends of Lifespan Variation During Mortality Crises

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