Health and cultural factors associated with enrolment in basic education: a study in rural Ghana
Health and cultural factors associated with enrolment in basic education: a study in rural Ghana
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(00)00152-0
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发表时间：
2001-02-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Bundy, D
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作者：
Fentiman, A;Hall, A;Bundy, D
这项跨学科研究比较了加纳在校和未入学学龄儿童的健康状况，并在包括亲属关系和生计在内的更广泛的社会经济和社会文化背景下审查了这些结果。与入学儿童相比，年龄和性别匹配的未上小学的儿童明显矮小和发育迟缓，70%的小学适龄儿童患有贫血。来自农业社区的儿童比来自渔业社区的儿童营养不良的情况要严重得多。未注册的青春期男孩感染血吸虫血吸虫更严重，并且比注册的青春期男孩更有可能贫血。这些数据表明，与健康和健康有关的因素可能如何影响和影响入学率，以及社会经济指标、生计和亲属关系如何也可能限制入学率，进而影响儿童健康。这项研究揭示了可能影响教育入学率的复杂因素，并提供了关于加纳农村地区已入学和未入学儿童健康状况的相似和不同之处的新数据。(C)2001爱思唯尔科学有限公司。保留所有权利。
This inter-disciplinary study compares the health status of school-age children in Ghana, both enrolled and non-enrolled, and examines these results within a wider socio-economic and socio-cultural context including kinship and livelihood. Children matched for age and sex who were not enrolled in Primary School were significantly shorter and more stunted than enrolled children were, and 70% of all Primary school-age children were anaemic. Young children from farming communities were significantly more undernourished than children from fishing communities. Adolescent non-enrolled boys were more heavily infected with Schistosoma haematobium, and were more likely to be anaemic than enrolled adolescent bays. The data indicate how health and health related factors may influence and affect enrolment and how socio-economic indicators, livelihood, and kinship may also constrain enrolment and, in turn, affect child health. This study sheds light on the complex factors that may influence enrolment in education and provides novel data on the similarities and differences,between the health of enrolled and non-enrolled children in rural Ghana. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.