Maternal Educational Attainment and Child Health in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To identify how child health status differs by mother's educational attainment for the overall US population and by race/ethnicity and to assess whether these disparities have changed from 2000 to 2017.

Design

Repeated cross-sectional data from the 2000-2017 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

Setting

United States.

Participants

Children aged 1 to 17 years from a nationally representative sample of the noninstitutionalized US population (N = 199 427).

Measures

Reported child health status, mother's educational attainment, child's race/ethnicity, and control variables were measured using the NHIS.

Analysis

Using logistic regression models, we assessed the relationship between maternal education and child health. Missing data were imput

SUBMITTER: Lawrence EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7033002 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature