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Women's work and infant care in the Philippines.
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It is suggested that having multiple preschoolers only makes a difference for mothers whose household income is below the median: it increases their likelihood of working outside the home.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1993-02-01. It has received 35 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Infant Care & Women's work.read more
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Care and Nutrition: Concepts and Measurement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended the UNICEF model of care and summarized the literature on the relationship of care practices and resources to child nutrition, and defined resources needed by the caregiver for care and showed that the child's own characteristics play a role in the kind of care that he or she receives.
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Cohort Profile: The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey
Linda S. Adair,Barry M. Popkin,John S. Akin,David K. Guilkey,Socorro Gultiano,Judith B. Borja,Lorna Perez,Christopher W. Kuzawa,Thomas W. McDade,Michelle J. Hindin +9 more
TL;DR: The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey was one of the first large-scale, population-based surveys designed with a conceptual framework in mind, which posits that underlying community-, household and individual-level variables affect a set of proximate health behaviours which, in turn, influence health outcomes such as growth and infectious disease morbidity and mortality.
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Some urban facts of life: implications for research and policy
TL;DR: A review of recent literature explores the challenges to urban food and nutrition security in rapidly urbanizing developing world as mentioned in this paper, and the main focus is on identifying what is different about urban areas, so as to better frame the program and policy responses.
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Maternal autonomy is inversely related to child stunting in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Monal R. Shroff,Paula L. Griffiths,Linda S. Adair,Chirayath M. Suchindran,Margaret E. Bentley +4 more
TL;DR: In this south Indian state, two dimensions of female autonomy have an independent effect on child growth, suggesting the need for interventions that increase women's financial and physical autonomy.
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The Duration of Breast-Feeding: How Is It Affected by Biological, Sociodemographic, Health Sector, and Food Industry Factors?*
TL;DR: A discrete-time logit hazards model is used to explore the relationship of biological, sociodemographic, health sector, and food industry practices on the duration of full and partial breast-feeding in a sample of more than 2,600 infants from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey.
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Two Kinds of Preindustrial Household Formation System
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and contrast household formation rules common to simple household systems of the 17th and 18th centuries with those common to joint household systems, and devotes special attention to the way in which the splitting of joint households operated in different societies.
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My Brother's Keeper: Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Comments and Reply]
TL;DR: The United States appears to have fewer alternative caretakers available, and less child caretaking, than most societies as discussed by the authors, which is related to a number of developmental areas during childhood, including mother-child relationships and attachment, conceptions and emergence of childhood stages, formation and organization of play groups, development of social responsibility, sex differences, individual differences, and cognitive style differences.
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Child-care costs and family labor supply.
David M. Blau,Philip K. Robins +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of child care costs on family labor supply and the demand for market child care using data from the 1980 baseline household survey of the Employment Opportunity Pilot Projects.
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Methodological issues in social support and social network research
TL;DR: The conclusion of this assessment suggests the need to clarify the essential elements of social support and social networks in order to better distinguish between the behavioral (support) and structural (network) variables that may be affecting health status.
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Can we make time for children? The economy, work schedules, and child care.
TL;DR: The overall objective of this address is to elaborate on the changing temporal organization of the workplace-its growing diversity and flexibility-and how these temporal dimensions affect the management of child care, including parental care, when mothers with young children are employed.