Improving women's level of education helps to reduce the infant mortality

Improving women's level of education helps to reduce the infant mortality
Improving women's level of education helps to reduce the infant mortality
Www.xinhuanet.com Los Angeles 9 Cable of the 17th of moon (reporter's plateau) A research report that American University of Washington announces on the 17th claims, improves the social economic status that women's level of education not merely can improve women, still contribute to reducing children's mortality. Say from 1970 to 2009, global under the age of 5 death toll of children 1600 Wan drop 780 Wan to from every year, among them the fall of 51 relates to the fact that woman's level of education is improved. In other words, because woman accept more education, global the intersection of children and death toll reduce 420 people Wan than 1970 2009. Researchers analyze 915 censuses and relevant census data that the global various countries hold, by arranging in an order the level of education of 175 countries. Analyze that reveals, from 1990 to 2009, the women of child-bearing age (15 years old to 44 years old) of 31 countries in the world Average improvement is more than 3 years of time to accept the education. Discover, during this period of time, there is improvement at various degrees in the level of education of every area in the world, especially in some developing countries, the average time that the women of child-bearing age accept the education is from 2 in 1990. Improved to 7 in 2009 in 2. 2. In 10 most populous countries of the whole world, the time of education that the women of child-bearing age accept before 2009 is more than 6 years on average, have finished elementary education in other words. The report points out, in order to realize the goal of development in millennium of the United Nations goal on reducing children's mortality by 2/3 between 1990 and 2015, most countries are devoted to improving the level of education of the women of child-bearing age in a more cost-effective manner, the achievement made at present has already gone beyond the expectancy of those years. Health index and assessment director of research institute Christopher and Murray of University of Washington are said, improving women's level of education the reason why can decrease children's mortality, because well-trained women will adopt more scientific method to bring up children, for example with the postpartum's personal hygiene before they will notice even more that pregnant, stress nutrition even more, know better education method, is good at utilizing the existing medical condition etc.. (End)


|