BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

294 Patternsof Mortality in Childhood
Fia. 147. Deaths from Nutritional Deficiency as
Underlying or Associated Cause in Children Under
5 Years, in Two Age Groups, by Educational Level
of Mother in 13 Latin American Projects Cornbined.
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with it, of which there are many. They inelude
income, level of occupation, working
conditions, style of life, diet and nutrition,
quality of housing, differential fertility,
urban-rural residence, regional residence,
and many other items with which education
shows high intercorrelations.'
In the Latin American projects education
can be taken as a measure of many socioeconomic
variables. Persons with little or
no education are usually the ones with low
incomes, poor housing, inadequate water
supplies, and poor environmental conditions.
without education are found more
frequently in the rural areas, as the data indicate,
and high proportions of their children
have nutritional deficiency, which is
an indication of inadequate food supplies.
Education, therefore, is an appropriate
measure for use in further research and also
in planning health programs.