Does intelligence account for the link between maternal literacy and child survival?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1231-1239

  Sandiford, P ^a   Cassel, J ^b   Sanchez, G ^b   Coldham, C ^c  

^a Inst for Health Sector Development   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto CentroAmericano de la Salud   (Nicaragua)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child health; Intelligence; Maternal education; Maternal literacy

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; LITERACY; MOTHERS' EDUCATION; MOTHERS' KNOWLEDGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; INFANT MORTALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MOTHER; NICARAGUA; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NICARAGUA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

NICARAGUA;

EID: 0030924066     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00042-7     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Anderson, M. (1992) Intelligence and Development: A Cognitive Theory. Blackwell, Oxford.
2. Arríen, J. B. and Matus Lazo, R. (eds) (1989) Nicaragua: Die: Años de Educación en la Revolución. MED/Claves Latinoamericanas, Managua.
3. Briend, A., Wojtyniak, B. and Rowland, M. G. M. (1987) Arm circumference and other factors in children at high risk of death in rural Bangladesh. Lancet ii, 725-728.
4. Burgess, H. J. L. and Burgess, A. P. (1969) A modified standard for mid-upper arm circumference in young children. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 15, 189.
5. Caldwell, J. C. (1979) Education as a factor in mortality decline: an examination of Nigerian data. Population Studies 29, 259-272.
6. Caldwell, J. C. (1994) How is greater maternal education translated into lower child mortality?. Health Transition Review 4(2), 224-229.
7. Chen, L. C., Alauddin Chowdhury, A. K. M. and Huffman, S. L. (1980) Anthropometric assessment of energy-protein malnutrition and subsequent risk of mortality among preschool aged children. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 33, 1836-1845.
8. Cleland, J. and van Ginneken, J. (1989) Maternal schooling and childhood mortality. Journal of Biosocial Science 10, 13-34.
9. Cochrane, S. H. (1979) Fertility and Education: What Do We Really Know? World Bank staff occasional paper no. 26, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
10. Connolly, K. J. and Kvalsvig, D. K. (1993) Infection, nutrition and cognitive performance in children. Parasitology 107, S187-S200.
11. Frisancho, A. R. (1981) New norms of upper limb fat and muscle areas for assessment of nutritional status. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 34, 254.
12. Gorier, A. C., Sandiford, P., Davey Smith, G. and Pauw, J. P. (1991) Water supply, sanitation and diarrhoeal disease in Nicaragua: results from a case-control study. International Journal of Epidemiology 20, 527-533.
13. Grosse, R. N. and Auffrey, C. (1989) Literacy and health status in developing countries. Annual Reviews of Public Health 10, 281-297.
14. Grossman, M. (1982) Government and health outcomes. American Economic Review 72, 191-195.
15. Herrnstein, R. J. and Murray, C. (1994) The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Free Press, New York.
16. Kleinbaum, D. G., Kupper, L. L. and Muller, K. E. (1988) Applied Regression Analysis and Other Multivariable Methods, 2nd edn. PWS-Kent, Boston.
17. Maistriaux, R. (1959) L'Intelligence et le Caractere. Presses Universitaites de France, Paris.
18. National Centre for Health Statistics (1977) NCHS Growth Curves for Children from Birth-18 Years. Education and Welfare publication no. PHS 78-1650, U.S. Department of Health, Washington, DC.
19. Perkins, D. N. and Saloman, G. (1989) Are cognitive skills context-bound?. Educational Researcher 18(1), 16-25.
20. Raven, J., Raven, J. C. and Court, J. H. (1993) Manual for Raven's Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary Scales. Section 1: General Overview (1993 Edition). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
21. B, B. Lewis, London.
22. Sandiford, P., Morales, P., Gorter, A., Coyle, E. and Davey Smith, G. (1991) Why do child mortality rates fall? An analysis of the Nicaraguan experience. American Journal of Public Health 81, 30-37.
23. Sandiford, P., Cassel, J., Melendez, D. and Coldham, C. (1994a) The electronic stadiometer: an appropriate technology for height measurement in health surveys. Tropical Doctor January, 24-25.
24. Sandiford, P., Lankshear, C., Montenegro, M., Sanchez, G. and Cassel, J. (1994b) The Nicaraguan literacy cru-sade: how lasting were its benefits?. Development in Practice 4(1), 35-49.
25. Sandiford, P., Cassel, J., Montenegro, M. and Sanchez, G. (1995) The impact of women's literacy on child health and its interaction with access to health services. Population Studies 49(1), 5-17.
26. Schorling, J. B., McAuliffe, J. F., De Souza, M. A. and Guerrant, R. L. (1990) Malnutrition is associated with increased diarrhoea incidence and duration among children in an urban Brazilian slum. International Journal of Epidemiology 19, 728-735.
27. Sepulveda, J., Willen, W. and Munoz, A. (1988) Malnutrition and diarrhea: a longitudinal study among urban Mexican children. American Journal of Epidemiology 127, 365-376.
28. Spearman, C. (1927) The Nature of "Intelligence" and the Principles of Cognition, 2nd edn. Macmillan, London.
29. World Bank (1993) World Development Report 1993, Investing in Health. World Bank, Oxford University Press, New York.