Preventing Intergenerational Poverty Transmission with Antenatal Care

Ling Zhu

Chapter 7 in Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap:Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu, 2013, pp 125-141 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractAntenatal care can help children from poor families get a good start to their lives and thus avoid the transmission of intergenerational poverty. Therefore, this chapter argues that focusing on the provision of antenatal care for children from poor families is the right place to start if your objective is to reduce poverty. The Chinese government has launched a program which aims to reduce maternal mortality and tetanus in newborns. This program plays a similar role to that of antenatal care. However, women living in pastoral areas in Yushu and Guoluo (the two Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures in Qinghai Province) do not sufficiently use antenatal care. Based on information collected through fieldwork, this chapter will try to find out the reasons behind this pattern of behavior, as well as understand the policy implications of this phenomenon.

Keywords: Tibet; Poverty Alleviation; Economic Development; Farmers; Herdsmen; Market Participation; Value Chain Analysis; Yunnan; Ecological Resettlement; Qinghai; Antenatal Care; Obligatory Education; Minimum Living Standard Guarantee; Culture; Radio; TV; Disaster Relief; Disaster Prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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