婚姻年龄对印度综合儿童发展服务计划利用的估计影响
Rajesh Kumar Rai1,2,3, Sabri Bromage4,5
1Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance, Suri, West Bengal, India rajesh.iips28@gmail.com sabri.bro@mahidol.ac.th.
Journal of epidemiology and community health
|December 20, 2023
概括
推迟年轻女性结婚显著提高了儿童免疫率. 这项研究强调了晚婚对印度儿童获得基本卫生服务的积极影响.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 人口统计学 人口统计学
- 儿童发展 儿童发展
背景情况:
- 结婚年龄是母亲为家庭和育儿角色做好准备的关键决定因素.
- 这项研究考察了早期婚姻对印度综合儿童发展服务 (ICDS) 计划下的儿童服务利用的影响.
研究的目的:
- 估计年轻母亲结婚年龄对其子女获得ICDS服务的影响.
- 提供支持旨在提高印度妇女合法结婚年龄的政策的证据.
主要方法:
- 利用了2019-2021年印度国家家庭健康调查的数据.
- 雇佣母亲初潮时的年龄作为评估结婚年龄因果关系的工具变量.
- 分析了五个关键ICDS服务的利用情况:食物,健康检查,免疫,幼儿护理和体重测量.
主要成果:
- 结婚年龄增加1年与使用儿童免疫服务的统计学上显著增加9个百分点有关.
- 虽然晚婚显示出其他ICDS服务 (食品,健康检查,幼儿护理,体重测量) 的积极趋势,但这些关联在统计学上并不显著.
- 在全国范围内,在年轻母亲的孩子中,免疫服务的利用率为60.0%.
结论:
- 推迟年轻女性的结婚年龄是改善儿童免疫接种的有效策略.
- 这些发现支持印度政府的立法努力,提高妇女的合法结婚年龄.
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