RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 An index for quantifying female education and child health in emerging economies
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP S10
OP S12
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306164
VO 100
IS Suppl 1
A1 Rodríguez Martín, José Antonio
A1 Holgado Molina, María del Mar
A1 Salinas Fernández, José Antonio
YR 2015
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/Suppl_1/S10.abstract
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.