maternal education and infant mortality

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Maternal Education and Infant Mortality
Li, Qing, and Louis G. Keith. “The Differential Association Between Education And Infant Mortality By Nativity Status Of Chinese American Mothers: A Life-Course Perspective.” American Journal Of Public Health, vol 101, no. 5, 2011, pp. 899-908. American Public Health Association, doi:10.2105/ajph.2009.186916.
The authors carried out a study to determine whether any association exists between maternal education and infant mortality rate and also whether the maternal place of origin has a significant input on infant mortality. The study group encompassed a group of 165,660 Chinese American mothers of which 15,040 were born in America while the rest came as foreigners. The author’s report concludes that maternal nativity and education hugely affects infant mortality among Chinese Americans. Most of the US-born mothers showed to have a low education that was detrimental to causing infant mortality. Us mothers born with less than 12 years of education tend to have a higher risk of infant mortality which stood at 2.39; 95% (with a confidence interval = 1.33, 4.27). The mortality rate, however, was so low for mothers with more than 15 years of educating proving that education is key in reducing infant mortality rate.
Bado, Aristide Romaric, and A. Sathiya Susuman. “Women’s Education And Health Inequalities In Under-Five Mortality In Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1990–2015.” PLOS ONE, vol 11, no. 7, 2016, p.

e0159186. Public Library Of Science (Plos), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159186.
The article analyses the correlation between mother’s education and the mortality rate for children under five years in Sub-Saharan countries in Africa during the period between 1990 to 2015. The data used in the article got collected from Demographic and Health Surveys of the study countries. The methods of analysis used in the study were two namely logistic regression, and Buis’s decomposition method (Karlsen et al., 2011). The results of mortality rates regarding mother’s education varied from country to country.
Countries like Burkina Faso, Guinea and Nigeria showed a higher mortality rate among children raised by non-educated mothers. Educated mothers (more than 7 years) had shown low mortality rates while those with more than 1 and less than six years showed an intermediate mortality rate.

Simmons, George B., and Stan Bernstein. “The Educational Status Of Parents, And Infant and Child Mortality In Rural North India.” Health Policy And Education, vol 2, no. 3-4, 1982, pp. 349-367. Elsevier BV, https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/24052/0000302.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y.
The article highlights the independent role of education on infant mortality rate reduction in India. The article involves the analysis of interviews collected from rural couples living in 120 villages located in Uttar Pradesh state in India. 87% of the mothers from the region have never set foot into a school while 52% of the fathers lack proper education. From the group under study, the infant mortality rate stands at 170/1000. The study shows that families with mothers with moderate education show almost similar infant mortality rates to those with no education (Karlsen et al., 2011). Those with mothers that have more education have very low mortality rates. The rate of female mortality is high in the region but families with education show very low female mortality rate. Most of the mortalities get experienced between the first two months.

“Education Is Key To Reducing Child Mortality: The Link Between Maternal Health and Education.” UN Chronicles, vol 44, no. 4, 2007, https://unchronicle.un.org/article/education-key-reducing-child-mortality-link-between-maternal-health-and-education.
The article highlights the big leap that the whole world has made in the fight to reduce the mortality rate. By 2006, the annual mortality rate reduced to 9.7 million. The figure was a 60% drop compared to the mortalities recorded in 1960. Most of the achievement was reached at as a result of education. The provision of education, especially to girls, has played a significant role in creating the essential building –blocks that make future parents more knowledgeable on how to raise children in a safe, healthy environment. The article also goes ahead to show that girls who receive basic education are more likely to manage their families in future.

Abuqamar, M., Coomans, D., & Louckx, F. (2010). The impact of parental education on infant mortality in Gaza strip, Palestine.
This article covers the study aimed at determining the relationship between the education level of parents and how it affects the mortality rate in Gaza strip. The method of data collection is through face to face i9nterviews. The study encompasses a group of 550 mothers of which 275 gave live births while the remaining 275 had infants who succumbed (Karlsen et al., 2011). The article used binary logistic regression to analyze the relationship between infant mortality and health behavior. The resulting outcome proved that families with low education had a higher risk of infant deaths. A positive statistical correlation exists between parental education and infant survival.

Works Cited
Abuqamar, M., Coomans, D., & Louckx, F. (2010). The impact of parental education on infant mortality in Gaza strip, Palestine.
Bado, Aristide Romaric, and A. Sathiya Susuman. “Women’s Education And Health Inequalities In Under-Five Mortality In Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1990–2015.” PLOS ONE, vol 11, no. 7, 2016, p. e0159186. Public Library Of Science (Plos), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159186.
“Education Is Key To Reducing Child Mortality: The Link Between Maternal Health and Education.” UN Chronicles, vol 44, no. 4, 2007, https://unchronicle.un.org/article/education-key-reducing-child-mortality-link-between-maternal-health-and-education.
Li, Qing, and Louis G. Keith. “The Differential Association Between Education And Infant Mortality By Nativity Status Of Chinese American Mothers: A Life-Course Perspective.” American Journal Of Public Health, vol 101, no. 5, 2011, pp. 899-908. American Public Health Association, doi:10.2105/ajph.2009.186916.
Simmons, George B., and Stan Bernstein. “The Educational Status Of Parents, And Infant and Child Mortality In Rural North India.” Health Policy And Education, vol 2, no. 3-4, 1982, pp. 349-367. Elsevier BV, https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/24052/0000302.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y.