Education and micronutrient deficiencies: an ecological study exploring interactions between women's schooling and children's micronutrient status.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Formal education can be a nutrition-sensitive intervention that supports the scale-up and impact of nutrition-specific actions. Maternal education has long been linked to child survival, growth, and development while adult earnings and nutrition are tied to years in school as a child. However, less is known about the relationship between maternal education and the micronutrient status of children, women and the general population.

Methods

Using country-level data and an ecological study design, we explored the global associations between women's educational attainment and: a) anemia and vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in children aged 6-59 months; b) anemia in non-pregnant women; and c) zinc deficiency, urinary iodine excretion (UIE), and the proportion of infants prot

SUBMITTER: Harding KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5894221 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature