Women's Schooling and Child Care in the Demographic Transition: A Mexican Case Study

Levine, Robert A.; Levine, Sarah; Richman, Amy; Uribe, F. Medardo Tapia; Correa, Clara Sunderland; Miller, Patrice Marie

doi:10.2307/1971950

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“…Six sites have been studied, including rural and urban sites in Mexico and Nepal and Infant and child mortality rate Prevalence of malnutrition Fertility rate (of mother) urban sites in Zambia and Venezuela (LeVine et al, 1991(LeVine et al, , 1994(LeVine et al, , 2001Joshi, 1994;Stuebing, 1997;Dexter, LeVine, & Velasco, 1998).…”

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Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study

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Social Science & Medicine

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This article addresses the question of whether literacy could be mediating the relationships of schooling to maternal health behavior in populations undergoing demographic transition. Recent studies in which literacy was directly assessed suggest a literacy pathway to demographic change. The literacy skills of 167 urban and rural mothers of school-aged children in Lalitpur District of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal were assessed by tests of reading comprehension, academic language proficiency, health media skills and health narrative skill, as part of studies in the urban and rural communities that included a maternal interview and ethnographic fieldwork on the contexts of family life, health care and female schooling. Regression analysis of the data indicates the retention of literacy skills in adulthood and their influence on health behavior; ethnographic evidence shows that selective bias in school attainment does not account for the results. Further direct assessment studies are recommended. r

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Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study

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Rowe

et al. 2004

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Thus, girls who have to curtail their education at an early stage because of access difficulties are more likely to go on to have large families. The relationship between maternal education and childcare practices, child health and mortality is even better established (Levine et al 1991, Hobcraft 1993, Joshi 1994, Kabeer 2005, Boyle et al 2006 11 ). Better educated mothers tend to respond better to public health messages (e.g.…”

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Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school

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Hampshire

Abane

et al. 2010

Children's Geographies

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Children's geographies is available online at:http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=articleissn=1473-3285volume=8issue=2spage=91Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract This paper draws on mobility research conducted with children in three countries: Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. It has two interlinked aims: to highlight the potential that mobile interviews can offer in research with young people, especially in research contexts where the main focus is on mobility and its impacts, and to contribute empirical evidence regarding the significance of everyday mobility to young people"s lives and future life chances in sub-Saharan Africa. During the pilot phase of our research project on children, transport and mobility, the authors undertook walks home from school with teenage children 1 in four different research sites: three remote rural, one peri-urban. As the children walked (usually over a distance of around five kilometres) their stories of home, of school and of the environment in-between, gradually unfolded. The lived experiences narrated during these journeys offer considerable insights into the daily lives, fears and hopes of the young people concerned, and present a range of issues for further research as our study extends into its main phase. IntroductionThis paper utilises mobile narratives as a route to understanding young people"s experiences of place and environment and the way these impact on their daily life 2 . Our focus is on and around a narrow corridor extending between school and home, drawing on studies we conducted in Malawi, Ghana and South Africa. We use these studies to show how walking with young people can bring significant insights into their daily lives, fears and hopes and how the narratives which unfold are intimately bound up with and shaped by their daily lived experience of the environments around and along their travel routes. Our aim is to show how mobile interviews can enhance research with young people, and the particular advantages a mobile interview confers where the study focus is on mobility and its role in shaping young people"s lives in the everyday i.e. where mobility is central to the unfolding narrative. In the context of growing interest in mobilities across the social sciences (Sheller and Urry 2006, Cresswell 2006), including specific consideration of walking practices (Lee and

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“…At the individual level, the health of the child (or risk to death) is influenced to a great extent by factors related to the mother: her education, her situation prior to and post the pregnancy, the care received before, during and after the pregnancy, location of birth, birth order, and the care received by the child during the first few years of his or her life. The education of the mother for instance is known to have a strong, positive impact on children's health as well as the mothers' ability to access and use health care services such as ante-natal care (Caldwell 1986;Caldwell and Macdonald 1982;Levine et al 1991;Sastry 1997;Measham et al 1999;Madise et al 1999;Ramalingaswami et al 1997;Gragnolati et al 2006;Nair 2007;Virmani 2007;Gaiha et al 2009). Not only are educated women likely to earn more, thereby improving living conditions for the child at home, they are also likely to assert more control over household resources and spend for their children (Caldwell 1993).…”

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