Role of the Household and Community in Determining Child Health

Subha Mani

No RP2007-78, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Nutritional status at a young age is positively associated with an individual's total human capital accumulated. Higher levels of human capital are in turn strongly correlated with an individual's economic and social well-being. Health is one such dimension of human capital and improvements in children's nutritional status improve an individual's overall lifetime well-being. This paper examines the various child level, household level, and community level characteristics that determine health status among children.

Keywords: Children; Econometric models; Health; Households; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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