{"id":52483,"date":"2021-06-11T04:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T04:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.asianetpakistan.com\/?p=74909"},"modified":"2021-06-11T04:10:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T04:10:37","slug":"parental-education-brings-large-benefits-for-child-survival-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/parental-education-brings-large-benefits-for-child-survival-researchers-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental education brings large benefits for child survival, researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Study one of few to look at maternal and paternal education, finding protective effects of both<\/i><\/p>\n

SEATTLE, June 11, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0A new study conducted by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation<\/a> (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN) found significant reductions in children’s risk of death associated with more years of parental education.<\/p>\n

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According to the study, a single year of maternal education reduced the risk of death for children under 5 years of age by 3%, and children born to mothers with 12 years of education are more than 30% less likely to die before age 5, compared to those born to mothers with zero years of education. Twelve years of paternal education reduced the risk of under-5 mortality by 17% compared to no years of education.<\/p>\n

“This research is exciting because of the consistency of positive effects of education across geographies and time,” said Hunter York, the study’s lead author. “While this evidence isn’t causal, it points to a relationship that goes beyond the influence of behaviors correlated with lower education, such as smoking, or policy interventions which aim to improve child survival regardless of parental education level, like free family planning. These are important mechanisms affecting the relationship between education and child health, but our results suggest a beneficial function of education in and of itself.”<\/p>\n

The study authors highlighted the importance of further research on paternal education, which has been studied far less than maternal education.<\/p>\n

“Even after controlling for a mother’s education, the father’s education still matters,” said Professor Emmanuela Gakidou, one of the senior authors on the study. “The majority of studies look only at maternal years of education, but it is crucial to understand and analyze the connection between the two, and not to discount the contribution of paternal education to child survival.”<\/p>\n

Over 300 studies from 92 countries were included in the analysis, capturing over three million live births. The researchers found that the protective effect of parental schooling strengthened as a child’s age increased, but was significant for all age groups under 5 years.<\/p>\n