Title:
Child malnutrition in Yemen : the role of female education
Authors:
Al-Eryani, B.M.
Year:
2006
PAGE:
61
Language:
eng
Subject:
Health and Nutrition
Keywords:
health
,
nutrition
,
maternal and child health
,
education
Abstract:
The objective of this thesis is to analyze the role of female education in development of malnutrition among children under five in Yemen in order to provide policy makers with recommendations that help in improving child nutrition in Yemen. The study question is answered by literature review and the use of the Demographic and Maternal and Child Survey (DMCHS) of 1997. The thesis was guided by the extended model of care framework adapted from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) conceptual framework. The framework provides a connection between female education and certain care practices important for a healthy well nourished child. The care practices analyzed are infant feeding, hygiene practices and health seeking behavior. The role of education to female autonomy as a resource for care was also analyzed. Various proxies were used for the care behaviors as well as for autonomy. In addition several interventions in developing countries promoting female literacy, nutritional education and school enrollment were also analyzed for possible recommendations in Yemen. Female education as a resource of care was analyzed in Yemen. The following recommendations were directed at increasing female education in Yemen: strengthening or implementing female literacy programs in the rural parts of Yemen; adding a nutritional education and proper child care practices component to all literacy programs; promoting communication for behavioral change using the hearth model in the rural areas of Yemen; increasing the girl’s enrollment in schools through school fee waiving, building local community schools for girls and training more female teachers; Providing scholarship schemes and school feeding programs with take home rations in return for girls schooling, targeting governorates with the highest gender disparities as in Hajja.
Organization:
KIT - Royal Tropical Institute
Institute:
KIT (Royal Tropical Insitute)
Department:
Development Policy & Practice
Country:
Yemen
Region:
Western Asia
Training:
Master in International Health (MIH)
Category:
Research
Right:
© 2006 Al-Eryani
Document type:
Thesis/dissertation
File:
183302.pdf