The Role of Parental education and Intermediary Determinants on Children's Health in Iran
Abstract:
Introduction
The study using national data, assessed relationship between Parents educations with childs Health in Iran and looking for the role of intermediary variables.Method
In this Ecological study, we collected national data on parental education as predictive variables, Childrens health as response variable and housing condition, Childs benefit from health services and Mothers health as intermediary variables in 31 provinces and did exploratory factor analysis in order to detect latent variables. Then we estimated correlation between latent variables and made structural equation models by residual variables.Findings: Findings showed that both Structural models which consists mothers ill-health and bad dwelling situation has good fitness. In structural models, 20 to 80 percent of child health variance has explained by low parental education and bad dwelling situation, and 60 to 80 percent of child health variance has explained by low parental education and bad mothers ill-health. GFI was between 0.74-0.99 in models.
Conclusion
The findings confirm the role of Socio-economic factors of families, especially mothers literacy and health and housing condition on childrens health, and show the importance of investment on these factors in order to achieve improvement in childrens health.Keywords:
Language:
Persian
Published:
Razi Journal of Medical Sciences, Volume:23 Issue: 6, 2016
Pages:
18 to 34
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