PROTOCOL: Causal mechanisms linking education with fertility, HIV, and child mortality: A systematic review
Fatima Tu Zahraa✉, Nicole A. Haberlandb, Stephanie R. Psakic
- aPopulation Council, Washington, DC, USA
- bPopulation Council, New York, New York, USA
- cU.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, USA
- ✉Corresponding author
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Abstract
In this review, we will investigate the pathways linking education and health to understand why education appears to improve health in some settings or among certain populations, and not in others, as well as to inform recommendations about how best to target investments in education to maximize the benefits to health. We will seek to answer the following key research questions, focusing specifically on the mechanisms that affect fertility, HIV, and infant and child mortality. If feasible, these answers will include meta-analyses of comparable education and mediator outcomes: (1) Do changes in education affect the primary theorized mediators (e.g., knowledge, attitudes, resources, and agency; health behaviors and harmful practices) of the relationship between education and fertility, HIV and child mortality? (2) How does the relationship between these mediators and education vary across different aspects of education (e.g., grade attainment vs. literacy/numeracy vs. attendance)?
TL;DRThe pathways linking education and health are investigated to understand why education appears to improve health in some settings or among certain populations, and not in others, as well as to inform recommendations about how best to target investments in education to maximize the benefits to health. (Semantic Scholar)