The Effect of Mother's Education and Employment on Children's Health
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Background
Childrens health in the first years of life plays a significant role in their physical, mental, and social performance in the future. One factor that can affect childrens health is increasing mothers education and participation in the job market. Due to an increase in mothers employment as well as childrens malnutrition, the effects of mothers education and employment on childrens health were analyzed in this paper.Objectives
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mothers employment and education on childrens health at birth..Methods
Research data were gathered from health care records (HCRs) of children at 10 health centers of Tehran in 2013. These children were randomly selected by the multi-stage sampling method. According to the Cochran formula, sample size at error level of 5% was 382, yet 400 questionnaires were completed. In order to estimate the regression model, Probit and Ordered Probit methods were used by applying the endogenous explanatory variable in the Stata software..Results
The Probit model results indicated that mothers employment increases the possibility of childrens low birth weight due to malnutrition by 65% and fathers education increases the possibility of children being healthy by 35%. However, family size and being twins decrease the possibility of children being healthy by 35 and 97%, respectively. The Ordered Probit model results showed that mothers employment decreases the possibility of children having normal weight for age Z score (WAZ) by 23% and increases the possibility of children having a low birth weight and extremely low birth weight by 13 and 10%, respectively. However, increasing mothers education will decrease the possibility of children's low birth weight..Conclusions
In both models, mothers employment had a negative effect on childrens health at birth; i.e. mothers employment increased the possibility of low birth weight due to malnutrition in children. However, mothers education had a positive effect on childrens health at birth; i.e. an increase mothers education will decrease the possibility of childrens low birth weight. Family size and being twins have negative effects on the childrens health at birth..Keywords:
Child Health , Employment , Education , Non , Professional
Language:
English
Published:
Jentashapir Journal of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Volume:7 Issue: 4, Aug 2016
Page:
3
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