Understanding and Measuring Child Well-Being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round Two

Leriou, Eirini; Kollias, Andreas; Anastasopoulou, Anna

doi:10.1007/s12187-021-09863-8

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“…Furthermore, the results on the basis of Composite Indicators 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 (Appendix, Table 13 ) are confirmed by the findings from the previous rounds of the research (Leriou et al, 2021 , 2022a , 2022b ).…”

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“…A linear combination of two components of well-being was established. The linear combination of the components shows that the dimensions having the largest contribution to child well-being are as follows (Appendix, Table 12 ): 5 (moral education) and 2 (nutrition), as they also arose in all the previous rounds of the research (Leriou et al, 2021 , 2022a , 2022b ). In addition, the aforementioned is confirmed by MCA.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Moreover, a crucial finding of PCA is that the dimensions with the greatest contribution to child well-being are D.5 and D.2 (Appendix, Table 12 ), which is confirmed by MCA (Appendix, Table 11 ). Consider all the previous rounds of the research (Leriou et al, 2021 , 2022a , 2022b ), the findings of PCA and MCA are very important.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Taking into account the school categories and clusters, it is observed that 43.5% of elementary- school children in Cluster 3 (Appendix, Table 14 ) are at risk of lacking well-being in terms of nutrition, while the corresponding percentage for the first half of the school year 2019–2020 was 37.8% (Leriou et al, 2022a ; Table 8 ), followed by the school category of elementary school in Cluster 4 with a percentage of 34.8% (Appendix, Table 14 ), whereas the corresponding percentage in the same semester of the previous school year was 13.1%, (Leriou et al, 2022a , Table 8 ). In addition, the results for the corresponding semester of last year revealed problems in the school category of high school, where the practice of providing school meals was not followed (Leriou et al, 2022a ). These differences from the results for the corresponding half of last school year (Leriou et al, 2022a ) are a consequence of the current global health crisis caused by COVID-19.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More specifically, there is a broader lack of information concerning child well-being in Greece. Due to this gap, children do not have much visibility in the public sphere (Leriou et al, 2022a ), which in turn leads to a lack of policies aimed at improving their quality of life.…”

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Understanding and Measuring Child Well-being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round four

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This paper aims to present the results of implementing a new, multi-dimensional and cumulative tool that records the well-being of children in the 1st semester of the school year 2020–2021, which constitutes the fourth round of an ongoing research. The tool was implemented in Attica through questionnaires circulated in twenty-five schools and three support centers for children and families under the organization, “The Smile of the Child” (twenty-eight bodies in total). The total number of children who participated in the sample was 1,114, belonging to three distinct school categories: the 6th grade of elementary school (10–11 years old), the 3rd grade of junior high (13–14 years old), and the 3rd grade of high school (16–17 years old). The results, mapped out in seven clusters, reveal evident concerns over nutrition and the moral education of students. In addition, the results indicate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of children and reveal with regard to national policy and legislation framework that the status of welfare state in Greece is ineffective and problematic. The theoretical and methodological framework of the study was confirmed through a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and a principal component analysis (PCA).The outputs of MCA reflect and confirm the good effect of “The Smile of the Child” for children in need. Finally, an action plan including the creation of policies based on public finance and fuzzy logic was suggested, the most important being the necessity of the establishment of a new Ministry for the protection of child well-being.

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Understanding and Measuring Child Well-Being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round Three

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This research paper aims to present the results of implementing a new multi-dimensional and cumulative tool that records child well-being, in the 2nd semester of the school year 2019–2020, which is the third round of an ongoing research. It also presents the results of the same year as a whole, in order to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of children. The tool was applied in Attica through questionnaires, addressing 22 public schools and three support centers of the organization, The Smile of the Child (25 units in total). The number of children in the sample was 560, belonging to three distinct school categories. The results of the 2nd semester were mapped out in seven clusters. The analysis of the results of the school year 2019–2020 as a whole was applied on a sample of 1,731 children; in other words, it incorporated almost the entire sample of the surveys conducted in the 1st and 2nd semesters. Finally, an action plan, based on the legal framework, focusing on mitigating the negative effects of the pandemic on child well-being is suggested. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12187-021-09910-4.

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Nutrition Outcomes of Under-five Children of Smallholder Farm Households: Do Higher Commercialization Levels Lead to Better Nutritional Status?

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The study investigated the nutritional status of under-five children of farm households. The study utilized primary data from 352 farm households with 140 under-five children. Household crop commercialization index (CCI) was used to estimate cassava farm household crop sale ratio and categorize the households into four commercialization levels while WHO Anthro software was employed to analyze under-five children anthropometric indices such as weight-for-age z-score (WAZ), height-for-age z-score (HAZ) and weight-for-height z-score (WHZ). Logit regression model (LRM) was used to examine the drivers of under-five children’s nutritional status of farm households. The study found that 42.9%, 7.9% and 3.6% of the children are stunted, underweight and wasted respectively. The highest stunting level was recorded in zero level households (CCI 1). Although, some higher CCI households (medium-high and very-high level) recorded increased percent of stunted children. This revealed that being a member of low or high-level commercialization households may not guarantee better nutritional status of young children of farm households. The results of LRM indicated that the predictors of children nutritional status were child’s age, farm size, access to electricity, healthcare and commercialization variables. Moreover, weak positive and negative relationships exist between CCI and children’s nutrition outcomes as measured by the z-scores. The study recommended maternal nutrition-sensitive education intervention that can improve nutrition knowledge of mothers and provision of infrastructure that enhance increased farm production and promote healthy living among farm households.

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Understanding and Measuring Child Well-Being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round Two

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Nutrition Outcomes of Under-five Children of Smallholder Farm Households: Do Higher Commercialization Levels Lead to Better Nutritional Status?

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