Mother's education, learning by doing, and child health care in rural India.

Autor/inn/en	Lee, Sang-Hyop; Mason, Andrew
Titel	Mother's education, learning by doing, and child health care in rural India.
Quelle	In: Comparative education review, 49 (2005) 4, S. 534-551Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
Schlagwörter	Allgemeinbildung; Grundbildung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Empirische Untersuchung; Handlungskompetenz; Verhalten; Mädchenbildung; Lernen; Handlungsorientierung; Pränataler Einfluss; Ländlicher Raum; Gesundheitserziehung; Schwangerschaft; Datenanalyse; Entwicklungsland; Forschungsstand; Statistik; Frauenbildung; Kinderfürsorge; Prüfverfahren; Indien
Abstract	The authors emphasize that an important benefit of basic education, particularly for girls, is the subsequent spillover to the health of their children. To confirm this they provide examples to show how different forms of education and participation in health programmes influence health behaviour of mothers. This article focuses on "learning by doing", which is extremely important because health systems are complex and provide a service that is not easily evaluated by the consumer. The health seeking behaviour discussed by the authors in this contribution is the demand for prenatal and postnatal care. More specifically, they investigate the effect of prenatal care on the subsequent demand for immunization services. It is widely known that women who seek prenatal care are much more likely to immunize their children after their birth in later years. The analysis of the researchers shows that a variety of factors - education, media exposure, income, wealth, access to care, family composition, religion, caste - influence both the use of prenatal care and immunization services. (DIPF/Orig./Ba.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2006/4