Education and Health Across the Life course in Guatemala

危地马拉终生教育和健康

基本信息

批准号：
6849299
负责人：
ARYEH DAVID STEIN
金额：
$ 25.98万
依托单位：
EMORY UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-02-01 至 2007-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a pressing need to clarify and quantify the independent role of formal schooling and of education in general on the development of adult health and the health of subsequent generations,especially in developing countries where resources are particularly limiting. Most previous research has been cross-sectional, has been conducted at the aggregate rather than the household level, or has not considered either the determinants of school attendance, the quality of the schooling available, or the impact of schooling on determinants of health such as wages and productivity, migration, and marriage. Our study addresses most of the limitations of the existing literature. The setting is four villages in the Oriente (Eastern) region of Guatemala and the localities to where people from these communities migrated. A unique feature of our study is that it builds upon 35 years of data collection and interaction with these individuals. Beginning in 1969, parents and children participated in a well-known longitudinal study by the Institute of Nutrition in Central America and Panama (INCAP) that is rich in data about home environment, growth, cognitive development, diet and morbidity. Subsequent follow-ups of the children, and in some cases their own children, have been conducted in 1988, 1996-1999, and most recently in 2002-2003. Our study thus links prospectively collected data on pre-schooling cognitive functioning, investments in children's schooling, educational achievment, and health status and lifestyle in adulthood. Thus we are able to look forward at the pathways through which schooling may operate, and backward at the factors that might determine schooling (and also, independently, health outcomes). Our study is a collaboration between accomplished researchers in the disciplines of epidemiology, anthropology, economics, and nutrition, who have the experience necessary for the multidisciplinary nature of the study. Members of the research team have a successful history of collaboration, in some cases over decades, in conducting and analyzing field studies and other research.

描述（由申请人提供）：迫切需要澄清和量化正规学校教育和一般教育对成人健康和后代健康发展的独立作用，特别是在资源特别有限的发展中国家。以前的大多数研究都是横向的，是在总体水平而不是家庭水平上进行的，或者没有考虑就学的决定因素、现有学校教育的质量或学校教育对健康决定因素的影响，例如工资和生产力、移民和婚姻。我们的研究解决了现有文献的大部分局限性。背景是危地马拉东方地区的四个村庄以及这些社区的人们迁移的地方。我们的研究的一个独特之处在于它建立在 35 年的数据收集和与这些人的互动基础上。从 1969 年开始，家长和孩子参加了中美洲和巴拿马营养研究所 (INCAP) 的一项著名的纵向研究，该研究包含有关家庭环境、生长、认知等方面的丰富数据。发育、饮食和发病率。随后对儿童进行跟踪，在某些情况下还跟踪他们的情况自己的孩子，分别于 1988 年、1996-1999 年和最近的 2002-2003 年进行过。因此，我们的研究将前瞻性收集的有关学前认知功能、儿童教育投资、教育成就以及成年后健康状况和生活方式的数据联系起来。因此，我们能够向前看学校教育的运作途径，向后看可能决定学校教育（以及独立的健康结果）的因素。我们的研究是流行病学、人类学、经济学和营养学等学科的杰出研究人员之间的合作，他们拥有该研究的多学科性质所需的经验。研究团队的成员在进行和分析实地研究和其他研究方面有着成功的合作历史，有时甚至长达数十年。