Health Status of Children: Vulnerability and Educational Effects

Alexander Krauss ()
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Alexander Krauss: The World Bank Group

Chapter Chapter 5 in External Influences and the Educational Landscape, 2013, pp 55-77 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Good health is essential for an individual’s educational progression. The Government of Ghana underpinned this fact in its Education Strategic Plan 2003–2015, making the promotion of good health and sanitation in schools and the delivery of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes two of the ten main policy goals at the basic school level (Ministry of Education 2009). Still, about 5 % of households in 2003 reported illness as the reason why their child was not enrolled in primary or lower secondary school based on data collected from the Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey (GSS 2003), while this specific question is not captured in more recent surveys.

Keywords: Total Fertility Rate; Lower Secondary School; Buruli Ulcer; Poor Quintile; Primary Student (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4936-2_5

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