Education and Health Across the Life course in Guatemala

危地马拉终生教育和健康

• 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
• 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
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6849299
• 关键词: Guatemala; academic achievement; adult human (21+); behavioral /social science research tag; cardiovascular disorder risk; child (0-11); clinical research; cognition; education; epidemiology; growth /development; health; health behavior; human data; lifestyle; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; nutrition; nutrition related tag; outcomes research

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.

说明(申请人提供)：迫切需要澄清和量化正规教育和一般教育在成人健康发展和后代人健康方面的独立作用，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，是在总体上而不是在家庭层面上进行的，或者既没有考虑上学的决定因素，也没有考虑现有教育的质量，也没有考虑学校教育对工资和生产力、移民和婚姻等健康决定因素的影响。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(东部)地区的四个村庄以及这些社区的人迁徙到的地方。我们研究的一个独特之处是，它建立在35年的数据收集和与这些人的互动的基础上。从1969年开始，父母和孩子参与了中美洲和巴拿马营养研究所(INCAP)的一项著名的纵向研究，该研究包含了丰富的家庭环境、成长、认知 发展、饮食和发病率。随后对儿童的随访，在某些情况下，他们 1988年、1996-1999年和最近一次是在2002-2003年进行的。因此，我们的研究将前瞻性收集的关于学龄前认知功能、对儿童上学的投资、教育成就以及成年后的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可能的运作路径，而向后回顾可能决定学校教育(以及独立地决定健康结果)的因素。我们的研究是流行病学、人类学、经济学和营养学领域的资深研究人员之间的合作，他们拥有研究多学科性质所必需的经验。研究小组成员在进行和分析实地研究和其他研究方面有成功的合作历史，有些合作时间长达数十年。