Adult education and child nutrition: the role of family and community

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
H Moestue, S Huttly

Abstract

It is well established that mothers' education has positive effects on child nutrition in developing countries. Less explored is the effect exerted by the education of other individuals--mothers' friends, neighbours and family. To examine independent effects of mothers', fathers' and grandmothers' education on child height-for-age and weight-for-age z-score, and the role of community-level maternal literacy over and above parental education and other individual-level factors. Cross-sectional data were analysed for 5692 children from Andhra Pradesh State in India and Vietnam sampled within "sites" (20 from each country) and then within "communities" (31 from Vietnam and 102 from India). Multilevel regression analysis was undertaken to account for confounders and geographical clustering of observations. Child nutrition is positively and independently associated with mothers', fathers' and grandmothers' education. The association with grandmothers' education was statistically significant in the India sample only and was stronger for boys: the adjusted mean difference in height-for-age z-scores between boys living with an educated grandmother and those not was 0.64 (95% CI 0.29 to 0.99, p<0.001). In the Vietnam sample, child nutrit...Continue Reading

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