Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: Educational attainment is an important social determinant of maternal, newborn, and child health^1-3. As a tool for promoting gender equity, it has gained increasing traction in popular media, international aid strategies, and global agenda-setting^4-6. The global health agenda is increasingly focused on evidence of precision public health, which illustrates the subnational distribution of disease and illness^7,8; however, an agenda focused on future equity must integrate comparable evidence on the distribution of social determinants of health^9-11. Here we expand on the available precision SDG evidence by estimating the subnational distribution of educational attainment, including the proportions of individuals who have completed key levels of schoo

SUBMITTER: Local Burden of Disease Educational Attainment Collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7015853 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature