Population Health InfoShare: Sharing Knowledge to Improve Public Health Worldwide.

bookbag My BookBag:  0 Documents

The Impact of Education on Health Reforms: A new look at data from the 2005 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey

Author: MEASURE DHS 
InfoShare Partner: MEASURE DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys)
Publication Date: February 2008
Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper
Topics: Adolescents/youth, Behavior change interventions, Child health/survival, Gender, Policy/Law
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Number of Pages: 16
File Size: 30 KB
File Format: Web Page

You should be able to view web pages in your web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.)


Provide feedback on this document to MEASURE DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys)

Your E-mail
Feedback
 

In Ethiopia, the most educated women (those with secondary or higher education) usually are in the best health. However, only 12 percent of women have received this level of education. Using data collected in the 2005 EDHS, this booklet provides an overview of education and literacy in Ethiopia, and then presents the major demographic and health indicators by the educational levels of the respondents, or, in the case of children’s health, by the educational level of the mother. This analysis does not control for the confounding effects of urbanity, wealth, culture, or other related variables requiring more sophisticated statistical techniques, which is beyond the scope of this report.