Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study

Levine, Robert A.; Levine, Sarah; Rowe, Meredith L.; Schnell-Anzola, Beatrice

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(03)00261-2

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“…Anand & Sen, 1997;LeVine et al, 2001;Maddox & Esposito, 2012;McTavish et al, 2010;Walter, 2010). Maternal education in the form of literacy has been recognized as a key pathway through which women's schooling effects reproduction and health behaviour (LeVine, LeVine, Rowe, & Schnell-Anzola, 2004). Moreover, literacy has been shown to provide wider social benefits both locally and in terms of greater social change (Gibson et al, 2004;Maddox & Esposito, 2012), as well as being the driving transformative force crucial to the restructuring of societies (Walter, 2010) …”

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Monitoring socio-environmental change for sustainable development: Developing a Multidimensional Livelihoods Index (MLI)

Donohue

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2015

Applied Geography

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a b s t r a c tTo enable more effective monitoring of sustainable development for meeting targets of the post-2015 agenda, assessment is required at the sub-national level to better understand the spatial variation in factors which contribute to sustaining livelihoods. In this research we take Nepal as a case study; a nation consistently ranked as one of the poorest in the world. To understand how sustainable development can effectively promote livelihood diversification, we advocate that a multidimensional spatial approach is essential for monitoring social and environmental change to aid decision-making processes. To achieve this, a multidimensional index was created to spatially explore the landscape of livelihoods across rural Nepal. A methodology was developed to quantify the livelihoods asset pentagon (human-physical-socialfinancial-natural) of the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. 23 socio-environmental indicators were selected to map the multidimensionality of livelihoods at the eco-development area unit level and produce the Multidimensional Livelihoods Index (MLI). Results indicate considerable spatial variability in the factors affecting people's livelihoods across Nepal. In general, the MLI decreases as you move north and east, reflecting changes in the topographic landscape and distance from the Kathmandu Valley Outcomes suggest an effective method for monitoring change at a sub-national level; highlighting potential locations and/or livelihood strategies for improving the targeting of resources (e.g. investment of foreign aid) to facilitate more sustainable development for the future.

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Monitoring socio-environmental change for sustainable development: Developing a Multidimensional Livelihoods Index (MLI)

Donohue

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2015

Applied Geography

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“…La escolaridad de la madre en particular, determinante éste importante de comportamientos adecuados de higiene, mejores prácticas de cuidado del niño y mejores conocimientos en salud (39,40), se asocia en nuestro estudio con la presencia de parásitos intestinales patógenos (18). Así, las madres con menos años de primaria tienen mayor probabilidad de que sus hijos tengan poliparasitismo y algún tipo de helminto.…”

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Determinantes sociales, prácticas de alimentación y consecuencias nutricionales del parasitismo intestinal en niños de 7 a 18 meses de edad en Guapi, Cauca.

Alvarado¹,

Vásquez²

2006

biomedica

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Determinantes sociales, prácticas de alimentación y consecuencias nutricionales del parasitismo intestinal en niños de 7 a 18 meses de edad en Guapi, Cauca Introducción. Los estudios de parasitismo intestinal en menores de 2 años raramente se realizan. Sus consecuencias nutricionales y la factibilidad de la prevención justifican su estudio. Objetivos. Identificar la prevalencia de parásitos intestinales patógenos, sus asociaciones con los determinantes sociales y las prácticas de alimentación y sus efectos sobre el estado nutricional. Materiales y métodos. Se censó a los niños menores de 18 meses de una comunidad urbana de la región Pacífica colombiana. Se obtuvieron 136 muestras, que representaban 62% de la población de menores de 18 meses en el área de estudio. Se identificó la presencia de parásitos intestinales patógenos a partir del examen directo y el concentrado de Ritchie-Frick modificado. Se utilizaron regresiones logísticas múltiples para predecir la presencia de parásitos intestinales patógenos. Se calcularon los puntajes Z de longitud para edad (≤ ≤ ≤ ≤ ≤2 DE, desnutrición crónica) y peso para longitud (≤ ≤ ≤ ≤ ≤2 DE, desnutrición aguda). Se realizaron análisis de covarianza para determinar la relación entre los parásitos intestinales patógenos y el estado nutricional con ajustes por edad.Resultados. El 30,6% de los niños estaban infectados: 26,2% presentaba helmintiasis (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Strongyloides stercolaris); 14,9% tenía protozoos (Giardia lamblia), y 11,8% poliparasitismo intestinal. La prevalencia de desnutrición aguda y crónica fue de 2,9% y 12,5%, respectivamente. La ausencia de sanitario y una baja escolaridad de la madre se asociaron a una mayor presencia de poliparasitismo y helmintiasis (p<0,05). La suspensión de la lactancia materna se asoció con la presencia de poliparasitismo (RM: 6,5 IC90%: 1,9 a 21,5) y con la presencia de Giardia (RM: 2,89 IC90%: 1,0 a 8,34). La desnutrición aguda fue más frecuente en niños infectados con T. trichiura y con varios parásitos (p<0,05). Conclusión. Nuestros resultados sugieren que la desparasitación periódica debe incluir a la población lactante. La promoción de la lactancia materna es un elemento importante en la disminución de la carga de la enfermedad producida por los parásitos intestinales patógenos.Palabras clave: parasitosis intestinales, lactante, estado nutricional, factores de riesgo, Colombia. Social determinants, feeding practices and nutritional consequences of intestinal parasitism in young childrenIntroduction. Studies on intestinal intestinal parasitism in children under 2 years of age have rarely been performed. The nutritional consequences and feasibility of parasite prevention justify the current study. Objectives. The study was undertaken with 3 goals: (1) to identify the prevalence of pathogenic intestinal parasites (PIP), (2) to determine the social factors, sanitary conditions and nutritional practices that predict PIP, and (3) to evaluate PIP effects on infant nutritional status. Materials and method...

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“…Research during the past 15 years has shown that those with limited health literacy skills have higher health care costs [1], use health care services more frequently or improperly [2][3][4], have poor understanding of chronic disease [4,5], have barriers to fully understanding one's health, illness and treatment [6], cannot adherent to medication regimens [7][8][9], affect health behaviors [10], tend to be less capable of properly caring for themselves [11,12], and influence health status.…”

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Social capital and health literacy in Taiwan

Yang¹,

Kuo²,

Yang³

et al. 2013

Health

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The argument of this study is that social capital is a key factor of health literacy. Data came from an island-wide sample. Position generator was adopted to measure social capital. A regression model is constructed to test the social capital which is known as a robust predictor of health literacy after controlling gender, age, education, income, and health communication ability. The results reveal that female, higher education, and better health communication ability are also correlated with health literacy. Implications for public health are discussed.

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Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study

Cited by 68 publications

References 9 publications

Monitoring socio-environmental change for sustainable development: Developing a Multidimensional Livelihoods Index (MLI)

Monitoring socio-environmental change for sustainable development: Developing a Multidimensional Livelihoods Index (MLI)

Determinantes sociales, prácticas de alimentación y consecuencias nutricionales del parasitismo intestinal en niños de 7 a 18 meses de edad en Guapi, Cauca.

Social capital and health literacy in Taiwan

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