Maternal work and child-care strategies in peri-urban Guatemala: nutritional effects.
Child Dev
; 62(5): 954-65, 1991 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-1756668
ABSTRACT
PIP: A child development researchers analyzed data on 239 8-35 month old children living in 2 villages 20 km from Guatemala City, Guatemala to determine the effects of maternal work and child care arrangements on children's nutritional status. Women who worked flexible hours and had no defined job skills (informal workers) were more likely to be poor (p.01), less educated (p.0001), and have undernourished children (p.02 for height for age and p.01 for weight for age) than those women who either owned a business, had a trade, or worked in a store or factory (formal workers). Yet informal work was statistically related to those socioeconomic factors than jeopardize adequate growth of children. When the researcher controlled for poverty and maternal education, mother's work did not affect growth, however. This suggested that mother's work may have a positive effect on growth because if mothers did not work, the children may have actually experienced even poorer nutritional status. The data showed the arduous circumstances informal workers encounter, their poverty, and inadequate income for their labor. The children of full-time workers had a somewhat better weight for height status than nonworkers. Percent of family income earned by the mother had a significant effect on all anthropometric indicators (p.01 for height for age and weight for age; p.05 for weight for height). In both the 1-way analysis of variance and the same analysis controlling for socioeconomic status and mother's work, children cared for by a 13-year old sibling had a considerably lower weight for height than those cared for by nonworking mothers (p.008 and p.01 respectively). None of the effects existed in the 36-48 month old children in these villages.
Palavras-chave
Americas; Anthropometry; Behavior; Biology; Central America; Child Care; Child Development; Child Nutrition; Child Rearing; Developing Countries; Diseases; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Life Surveys; Family Relationships; Family Research; Geographic Factors; Guatemala; Health; Human Resources; Income; Labor Force--women; Latin America; Malnutrition; Measurement; Methodological Studies; Mothers; North America; Nutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Nutrition Surveys; Parents; Population; Poverty; Research Methodology; Siblings; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Spatial Distribution; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
População Urbana
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Mulheres Trabalhadoras
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Cuidado da Criança
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Desnutrição Proteico-Calórica
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Países em Desenvolvimento
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Relações Mãe-Filho
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America central
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Guatemala
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Child Dev
Ano de publicação:
1991
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos