Greater years of maternal schooling and higher scores on academic achievement tests are independently associated with improved management of child diarrhea by rural Guatemalan mothers

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 799-806

  Webb, Aimee L ^a   Ramakrishnan, Usha ^b,c   Stein, Aryeh D ^b,c   Sellen, Daniel W ^a,c   Merchant, Moeza ^a   Martorell, Reynaldo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic skills; Diarrhea; Guatemala; Illness management; Maternal schooling; Raven's scores

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GUATEMALA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77956227900     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-009-0510-1     Document Type: Article

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