American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 133, No. 2: 185-201
Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Underlying and Proximate Determinants of Child Health: The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Study
A proper understanding of infant health requires the integration of sooloeconomic, behavioral, and biomedical models. A methodology is presented for assessing the effects of "underlying" social factors and proximate behavioral and biomedical factors on infant morbidity, growth, and mortality. The method is applied to data collected from over 3,000 children in Cebu, Philippines, over the first 2 years of life. Data were collected between 1983 and 1985. A central theme is that mothers recognize certain observable and nonobservable threats to the health of their infants, and that the mothers take measures to reduce the risk from such threats. It is shown that if conventional statistical techniques (which do not take such behaviors into account) are used, the estimates of the effect of the risk factors on health are incorrect. Procedures for obtaining correct estimates are described. The application of the methodology is illustrated by modeling childhood diarrhea, and by showing how maternal education Induces behavioral changes, and how these changes, in turn, induce changes in the prevalence of childhood diarrhea. Am J Epidemiol 1991; 133:185-201.
biological factors; diarrhea; epidemiologic methods; growth; health behavior; models, statistical; socioeconomic factors
1 The Cebu Study Team members and their affiliations are as blows: Unda S. Adair, John S. Akin, David K. Guilkey, and Barry M. Popkin (the University of North Carolina and the Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill NC), John Bnscoe (the World Bank, Washington, DC); Robert E. Black (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD); and Wilhelm Flieger (the Office of Population Studies of the University of San Cartos, Cebu, Philippines) John Briscoe had pnncipal responsibility for organiang and writing this paper.
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