Demand for Immunization, Parental Selection, and Child Survival
نویسنده
چکیده
This study focuses on the estimation of household demand for immunization as well as its technological effect on the survival probability of a child in rural India. Careful attention is paid to the consequences of parental selection and heterogeneity on survival technology. The results suggest that child mortality is negatively related to the likelihood of purchasing vaccination, but imperfect vaccination substantially reduce the beneficial effect. Results also suggest that mothers with a high risk of child mortality engage in compensatory behavior and ignoring this first type selection underestimates the impact of immunization on child survival. However, mothers also engage in complementary behavior by reinforcing endowments when they choose among different health inputs. The second type selection mitigates the effect of the first type of selection. JEL Classification: I12, J13
منابع مشابه
The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana.
BACKGROUND Research conducted in Africa has consistently demonstrated that parental poverty and low educational attainment adversely affect child survival. Research conducted elsewhere has demonstrated that low-cost vaccines against preventable diseases reduce childhood mortality. Therefore, the extension of vaccination to impoverished populations is widely assumed to diminish equity effects. R...
متن کامل‘I know it has worked for millions of years’: the role of the ‘natural’ in parental reasoning against child immunization in a qualitative study in Switzerland
BACKGROUND Despite efforts of international and national health authorities, immunization coverage and timeliness of vaccination against dangerous childhood diseases have been adversely affected by parental hesitation to vaccinate their children in high-income countries. Literature shows that social and political processes and shifts in conceptual structures, such as emerging views linked to he...
متن کاملI-14: Ethical Issues in Sex Selection and Family Balancing
Sex selection for non-medical reasons is a major controversy in around the world. Here in this paper, we presented the ethical arguments about sex selection for non-medical reasons and discuss about them in Islamic context. Significant arguments about sex selection relate to sexism and sex discrimination, sex disproportion, human dignity, playing God, psychological pressure on unselected childr...
متن کاملParental investment in child health in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-national study of health-seeking behaviour.
Parents face trade-offs between investing in child health and other fitness enhancing activities. In humans, parental investment theory has mostly been examined through the analysis of differential child outcomes, with less emphasis on the actions parents take to further a particular offspring's condition. Here, we make use of household data on health-seeking for children in a high mortality co...
متن کاملDevelop of compassion-based education package on mother-child interaction and its effectiveness on mother-child relationship and parental stress improvement
Introduction: The child needs an appropriate environment for growth and development. An environment where parental care is the key to achieve the desired development.The purpose of this study was to develop of compassion-based education package on mother-child interaction and its effectiveness on mother-child relationship and parental stress improvement. Methods: The research method was semi-ex...
متن کامل