Explaining the Role of Parental Education in the Regional Variations in Infant Mortality in <scp>I</scp>ndia

Choudhury, Pradeep Kumar

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“…However, our study found that parental education has protective effects on childhood mortality suggesting the parental education remains important in relation to childhood mortality in Myanmar. The findings also reinforce other evidence of protective effects of parental education on childhood mortality in Tanzania [30], India [33] and Palestine [44].…”

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“…With respect to parental education, many studies report that parental education is associated with the families' socioeconomic circumstances and that parents' health knowledge and behaviours can impact on child health and survival [15,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. A recent study that used DHS data from 43 LMICs, reported that the role of parental education in child health has attenuated considerably over time (1991 to 2016) in low resource settings and that the association between mother's education and child health is weakening in line with societal changes [17].…”

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Inequalities in early childhood mortality in Myanmar - Association between parents’ socioeconomic status and early childhood mortality

Williams

Sommar

2019

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Background: Despite global achievements in reducing early childhood mortality, disparities remain. There have been empirical studies of inequalities conducted in low-and middleincome countries. However, there have been no epidemiological studies on socioeconomic inequalities and early childhood survival in Myanmar. Objective: To estimate associations between two measures of parental socioeconomic statushousehold wealth and educationand age-specific early childhood mortality in Myanmar. Methods: Using cross-sectional data obtained from the Myanmar Demographic Health Survey (2015-2016), univariate and multiple logistic regressions were performed to investigate associations between household wealth and highest attained parental education, and under-5, neonatal, post-neonatal and child mortality. Data for 10,081 children born to 5,932 married women (aged 15-49 years) 10 years prior to the survey, were analysed. Results: Mortality during the first five years was associated with household wealth. In multiple logistic models, wealth was protective for post-neonatal mortality. After adjusting for individual proximate determinants, the odds of post-neonatal mortality in the richest households were 85% lower (95% CI: 50-96%) than in the poorest households. However, significant association was not found between wealth and neonatal mortality. Parental education was important for early childhood mortality; the highest benefit from parental education was for child mortality in the one-to five-year age bracket. After adjusting for proximate determinants, children with a higher educated parent had 95% (95% CI 77-99%) lower odds of death in this age group compared with children whose parents' highest educational attainment was at primary level. The association between parental education and neonatal mortality was not significant. Conclusions: In Myanmar, household wealth and parental education are important for childhood survival before five years of age. This study identified nuanced age-related differences in associations. Health policy must take socioeconomic determinants into account in order to address unfair inequalities in early childhood mortality. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Inequalities in early childhood mortality in Myanmar - Association between parents’ socioeconomic status and early childhood mortality

Williams

Sommar

2019

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“…Education is considered as an important social determinant of health and there is abundant evidence of the positive relationship between education and health status of the people. 13 Kerala's literacy rate is 93.91% and its IMR is only 10 per 1000 live births. Providing education to the parents, particularly to mothers is critical to reduce infant mortality rates and its regional variations in India.…”

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“…Providing education to the parents, particularly to mothers is critical to reduce infant mortality rates and its regional variations in India. 13 The interviewees believed that the awareness among the parents in Manipur is also a contributing factor in the low IMR in the state. According to them, the parents are acquainted with the benefits of regular ante natal checkups, timely immunisation, institutional deliveries, etc.…”

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Formative research on infant mortality rate in Manipur

Lyngdoh

Akoijam

2021

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: IMR is universally regarded as the most important indicator of the health status of a community. Objectives was too triangulate low infant mortality data in Manipur using qualitative data in a district.Methods: A formative research was conducted in Bishnupur area of Manipur in November-December 2017 among health care workers using in-depth interviews. A total of 15 in-depth interviews were transcribed and analysed with qualitative content analysis.Results: Themes emerging out of analysis included well-equipped health care facilities, efficiency of health workers, parent’s awareness, record maintenance, problems faced by the hilly areas and Government schemes.Conclusions: All the participants are of the agreement that IMR in Manipur is low.

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“…This association has been attributed, in part to increased awareness, adoption of safe behavioral practices and prompt access to preventive and curative health services by the more educated individuals [13]. Several existing evidence in support of the positive impact of education on better health outcomes are available [11, 14, 16, 26, 27], most of them suggest that education attainment imparts similar influences on HIV burden, reduced child mortality and increased survival.…”

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Household socio-economic status and likelihood of HIV infection among under five-year children in Muheza district, north-eastern Tanzania

Bwana

Simulundu

Mboera

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24Background: There are evidences of the association between socio-economic factors and HIV 25 prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is dearth of information on such relationship 26 in Tanzania. Here, we present data on the relationship between household's socio-economic 27 factors and HIV prevalence among under five-year children in Muheza district, Tanzania. 28 Methods: We conducted a facility-based study from June 2015 to June 2016 in which we 29 enrolled under five-year children born to HIV positive mothers. Information on HIV status of the 30 child and socio-demographic characteristic of the head of the household was collected using a 31 structured questionnaire. Data analysis was done using STATA version 13.0. 32 Results: A total of 576 mothers/guardians were interviewed each with respective HIV exposed 33 under five-year child. Children who belonged to a head of household with at least a high 34 education level (AOR= 0.4, 95% CI 0.2-0.8) and living in a relatively wealthy household (AOR 35 = 0.5, 95% CI 0.2-0.9) was associated with reduced odds of HIV infection among children. 36 Univariate analysis revealed that the odds of HIV infection was three-fold (COR = 2.9, 95% CI 37 1.2-7.0) higher among children living in rural than in urban areas. The heads of household living 38 in rural areas (AOR=0.3 95% CI 0.1-0.9) had low education level compared to those living in 39 urban areas.40 Conclusion: Children who belong to the head of households with high educational level, high 41 household wealth were associated with reduced likelihood of HIV infection in Tanzania. 42 Children living in rural areas had increased likelihood of acquiring HIV infection. These findings 43 stress the need to focus on improving education status of the population and economically 44 disadvantaged populations as a strategy for HIV prevention and control measures.3 45

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Explaining the Role of Parental Education in the Regional Variations in Infant Mortality in India

Abstract: Using data from the National Family Health Survey (2005-06)

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Inequalities in early childhood mortality in Myanmar - Association between parents’ socioeconomic status and early childhood mortality

Inequalities in early childhood mortality in Myanmar - Association between parents’ socioeconomic status and early childhood mortality

Formative research on infant mortality rate in Manipur

Household socio-economic status and likelihood of HIV infection among under five-year children in Muheza district, north-eastern Tanzania

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