Political Economy, Capability Development, and Fundamental Cause: Integrating Perspectives on Child Health in Developing Countries

Burroway, Rebekah

doi:10.5195/jwsr.2017.639

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“…At the individual level, another study finds household wealth and maternal health are the strongest predictors of child health (Burroway, 2017). The importance of maternal empowerment and well‐being over societal‐level variables—such as economic development (Burroway, 2016) and clean water and sanitation (Burroway, 2017)—suggests that gender equality and promotion of women's health ought to be prominently targeted features of the global health agenda to encourage improvements in population health. As highlighted by Aldanmaz (2020), this might include de‐stigmatization of menstruation, including menstrual products in disaster aid, and efforts to lift women out of poverty.…”

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“…However, the effects of women's education on child health may not be universal, with largest benefits for middle deciles of education (Shorette & Burroway, 2022). At the individual level, another study finds household wealth and maternal health are the strongest predictors of child health (Burroway, 2017). The importance of maternal empowerment and well‐being over societal‐level variables—such as economic development (Burroway, 2016) and clean water and sanitation (Burroway, 2017)—suggests that gender equality and promotion of women's health ought to be prominently targeted features of the global health agenda to encourage improvements in population health.…”

Section: Gender In Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations

Leonard

2023

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This article is a review of global health literature, emphasizing the evolution in health terminology in recent decades and noteworthy research areas of global health. This review identifies global inequality and disease‐related stigma as key social determinants of health and central problems improving health outcomes. Within global health, there is a growing discourse surrounding health disparities, particularly among the world's most disadvantaged populations. Additionally, the field notes an increase in global health nonprofits, international governmental organizations (IGOs), and regulatory bodies. As such, this paper examines the scope of empirical global health research with consideration of inequality and stigma as well as the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in health outcomes for the developing world. The review also discusses the role of IGOs and global health regulatory bodies in shaping development and health outcomes. A broad review of literature finds that although chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are currently the largest cause of poor health in the world's most impoverished nations, these are largely untargeted by NGO efforts, which may exacerbate the state of global inequality. However, the impact that NGOs could have on ameliorating the effects of NCDs remains understudied and is a promising direction for future scholarly efforts.

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Section: Gender In Global Healthmentioning

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The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations

Leonard

2023

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The Capability Approach in Research about Children and Childhood: a Scoping Review

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It Takes a Village

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Hargrove

2018

Sociology of Development

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Women's education is widely recognized as a key factor in improving well-being in developing countries. However, previous research rarely considers both the individual and contextual effects of education. As broad societal transformations take place, education may shape women's capacity to take advantage of better access to power and resources, resulting in a dispersion effect of expanded women's education on well-being. Combining multilevel modeling with spatial data techniques, this study investigates variation in child malnutrition in Nigeria based on a set of individual and community characteristics. Nigeria is an interesting development case study because it outperforms other lower middle-income countries in GDP per capita, yet lags behind in many indicators of well-being. Drawing on data from the Demographic and Health Surveys and the Global Administrative Areas database, the analysis pools data on 24,990 children across 458 communities. Results indicate that women's education has a robust association with malnutrition at the community level, even controlling for a variety of household characteristics. This suggests that education has a protective effect on child health not only because more individual women are going to school, but also because everyone benefits from the education and empowerment of women in the community.

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Political Economy, Capability Development, and Fundamental Cause: Integrating Perspectives on Child Health in Developing Countries

Abstract: Several dominant theoretical perspectives attempt to account for health disparities in developing countries

Cited by 5 publications

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The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations

The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations

The Capability Approach in Research about Children and Childhood: a Scoping Review

It Takes a Village

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