MEASURE DHS - Maternal Education, Use of Health Services, and Child Survival: An Analysis of Data from the Bolivia DHS Survey (English) 229

Maternal Education, Use of Health Services, and Child Survival: An Analysis of Data from the Bolivia DHS Survey (English)

Document Type: Working Papers
Publication Topic(s): Education, Gender
Country(s): Bolivia
Language: English
Author(s): George T. Bicego, J. Ties Boerma and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc. Columbia, Maryland, USA s
Publication Date: December 1990
Publication ID: WP1

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Abstract:

Studies using data from the World Fertility Survey have shown that , on average, each one-year increment in maternal education corresponds to a reduction of 7 to 9 persent in mortality for children under 5 years of age.