Title:
Improving Health through Education : The impact of school feeding and other School-based health interventions on dropout rates in primary education of girls in developing countries.
Authors:
Nijland, Jorien
Year:
2014
PAGE:
viii, 44
Language:
En
Subject:
Gender, Citizenship and Governance
Keywords:
dropout, girls, developing country, school feeding, school-based health interventions
Abstract:
Many girls in developing countries face gender inequality in life every day: they still have lower access to health facilities than men. And although enrolment rates for girls in developing countries are increasing, rates are still lower than boys’ enrolment rates. Education for girls can lead to a wide range of benefits, from improved maternal health, reduced infant mortality and fertility rates to increased prevention against HIV/AIDS. Preventing girls from dropping out of school is an important tool to improve School completion rates and reach higher levels of girls education. Dropping out of school is a long-term process and many reasons can provide the final push to drop out of school. This can be lack of resources for school costs, cultural and religious aspects, teenage pregnancies, lack of sanitary facilities, school environment or being no longer interested in school for examples. School feeding and school-based health interventions as deworming, malaria prevention, WASH promotion and sexual and reproductive health education are all interventions to improve health and educational outcomes. For the impact of school feeding on the educational outcomes school enrolment and school attendance many has been written. However, the evidence is ambiguous. This study investigates the impact of school feeding and school-based Interventions on the educational outcome “dropout of school”. Little has been written about this impact and evidence is unclear. To prevent a girl from dropping out of school in developing countries, more research should be done, taking into account the factors that are influencing the decision of dropping out.
Organization:
KIT - Royal Tropical Institute
,
VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Institute:
KIT (Royal Tropical Institute)
Department:
Development Policy and Practice
Country:
The Netherlands
Region:
Western Europe
Training:
Master in International Health
Category:
Research
Right:
© 2014 Nijland
Document type:
Thesis/dissertation
File:
iUIWodzyai_20161108164701976.pdf