Associations of Parental Education With Children's Infectious Diseases and Their Mediating Factors: The Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents' educational background is presumed to influence the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases in children through their decisions about vaccinations and other family lifestyle choices. Regarding voluntary vaccination, a household's economic situation may also be associated with non-vaccination. Therefore, this study investigated the association between parental education and vaccine-preventable diseases (varicella, mumps, influenza [flu], pertussis, measles, and rubella) in children, which currently remains elusive.

Methods

We used datasets from the Japan Environment and Children's Study, which included 104,062 fetal records; our study population comprised 80,930 children up to the age of 3 years. The associations between parental educational background a

SUBMITTER: Narita M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11882350 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature