PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rodríguez Martín, José Antonio
AU  - Holgado Molina, María del Mar
AU  - Salinas Fernández, José Antonio
TI  - An index for quantifying female education and child health in emerging economies
AID  - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306164
DP  - 2015 Feb 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - S10--S12
VI  - 100
IP  - Suppl 1
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/Suppl_1/S10.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/Suppl_1/S10.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child2015 Feb 01; 100
AB  - Objective To construct an index to measure female education and child health in the least developed countries (LDCs) of Asia. Methods and results The design of our index includes the variables of female education and child health defined in the goals of the Millennium Declaration. For this purpose, we used Pena's P2 distance method for 2011, the last year for which data were available for the set of variables. Conclusion We have proposed a territorial measure and classification of female education and child health in the LDCs of Asia. We believe that the most striking differences between countries relate to basic female education variables such as girls’ primary completion rate, and female literacy.