Journal article
Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries
Nature (London), Vol.577(7789), pp.235-238
01/09/2020
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1872-1
PMCID: PMC7015853
PMID: 31875853
Abstract
Analyses of the proportions of individuals who have completed key levels of schooling across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017 reveal inequalities across countries as well as within populations.
Educational attainment is an important social determinant of maternal, newborn, and child health(1-3). As a tool for promoting gender equity, it has gained increasing traction in popular media, international aid strategies, and global agenda-setting(4-6). The global health agenda is increasingly focused on evidence of precision public health, which illustrates the subnational distribution of disease and illness(7,8); however, an agenda focused on future equity must integrate comparable evidence on the distribution of social determinants of health(9-11). Here we expand on the available precision SDG evidence by estimating the subnational distribution of educational attainment, including the proportions of individuals who have completed key levels of schooling, across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017. Previous analyses have focused on geographical disparities in average attainment across Africa or for specific countries, but-to our knowledge-no analysis has examined the subnational proportions of individuals who completed specific levels of education across all low- and middle-income countries(12-14). By geolocating subnational data for more than 184 million person-years across 528 data sources, we precisely identify inequalities across geography as well as within populations.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries
- Creators
- Nicholas Graetz - University of WashingtonLauren Woyczynski - University of WashingtonKatherine F. Wilson - University of WashingtonJason B. Hall - University of WashingtonKalkidan Hassen Abate - Jimma UniversityFoad Abd-Allah - Cairo UniversityOladimeji M. Adebayo - Univ Coll Hosp, Dept Med, Ibadan, NigeriaVictor Adekanmbi - Cardiff UniversityMahdi Afshari - Zabol UniversityOlufemi Ajumobi - University of Nevada, RenoTomi Akinyemiju - Duke UniversityFares Alahdab - Mayo Clin Fdn Med Educ & Res, Evidence Based Practice Ctr, Rochester, MN USAZiyad Al-Aly - Washington Univ, Internal Med Dept, St Louis, MO 63110 USAJacqueline Elizabeth Alcalde Rabanal - Natl Inst Publ Hlth, Ctr Hlth Syst Res, Cuernavaca, Morelos, MexicoMehran Alijanzadeh - Qazvin Univ Med Sci, Qazvin, IranVahid Alipour - Iran Univ Med Sci, Hlth Management & Econ Res Ctr, Tehran, IranKhalid Altirkawi - King Saud UniversityMohammadreza Amiresmaili - Kerman Univ Med Sci, Dept Hlth Management Policy & Econ, Kerman, IranNahla Hamed Anber - Mansoura UniversityCatalina Liliana Andrei - Carol Davila Univ Med & Pharm, Bucharest, RomaniaMina Anjomshoa - Rafsanjan Univ Med Sci, Social Determinants Hlth Res Ctr, Rafsanjan, IranCarl Abelardo T. Antonio - University of the Philippines ManilaJalal Arabloo - Iran Univ Med Sci, Hlth Management & Econ Res Ctr, Tehran, IranOlatunde Aremu - Birmingham City UniversityKrishna K. Aryal - Schulman, Ronca & BucuvalasMehran Asadi-Aliabadi - Iran Univ Med Sci, Prevent Med & Publ Hlth Res Ctr, Tehran, IranSuleman Atique - University of Ha'ilMarcel Ausloos - Bucharest Univ Econ Studies, Dept Stat & Econometr, Bucharest, RomaniaAshish Awasthi - Publ Hlth Fdn India, Indian Inst Publ Hlth, Gurugram, IndiaBeatriz Paulina Ayala Quintanilla - La Trobe UniversitySamad Azari - Iran Univ Med Sci, Hlth Management & Econ Res Ctr, Tehran, IranAlaa Badawi - Publ Hlth Agcy Canada, Publ Hlth Risk Sci Div, Toronto, ON, CanadaJoseph Adel Mattar Banoub - Alexandria UniversitySuzanne Lyn Barker-Collo - University of AucklandAnthony Barnett - Australian Catholic UniversityNeeraj Bedi - Gandhi Med Coll Bhopal, Dept Community Med, Bhopal, IndiaDerrick A. Bennett - University of OxfordNatalia V. Bhattacharjee - University of WashingtonKrittika Bhattacharyya - Natl Inst Biomed Genom, Dept Stat & Computat Genom, Kalyani, W Bengal, IndiaSuraj Bhattarai - Global Inst Interdisciplinary Studies, Dept Global Hlth, Kathmandu, NepalZulfiqar A. Bhutta - University of TorontoAli Bijani - Babol Univ Med Sci, Social Determinants Hlth Res Ctr, Babol Sar, IranBoris Bikbov - Ist Ric Farmacol Mario Negri IRCCS, Ranica, ItalyGabrielle Britton - Inst Invest Cient & Serv Alta Tecnol INDICASAT AI, Ctr Neurosci, Panama City, PanamaRoy Burstein - University of WashingtonZahid A. Butt - University of WaterlooRosario Cardenas - Metropolitan Autonomous Univ, Dept Populat & Hlth, Mexico City, DF, MexicoFelix Carvalho - Univ Porto, Inst Publ Hlth, Porto, PortugalCarlos A. Castaneda-Orjuela - Natl Inst Hlth, Colombian Natl Hlth Observ, Bogota, ColombiaFranz Castro - Gorgas Mem Inst Hlth Studies, Panama City, PanamaEster Cerin - Australian Catholic UniversityJung-Chen Chang - Natl Taiwan Univ, Coll Med, Taipei, TaiwanMichael L. Collison - University of WashingtonCyrus Cooper - University of SouthamptonMichael A. Cork - University of WashingtonFarah Daoud - University of WashingtonRajat Das Gupta - University of South CarolinaNicole Davis Weaver - University of WashingtonJan-Walter De Neve - Heidelberg Univ, Heidelberg Inst Global Hlth, Heidelberg, GermanyKebede Deribe - Brighton & Sussex Med Sch, Dept Global Hlth & Infect, Brighton, E Sussex, EnglandBeruk Berhanu Desalegn - Hawassa UniversityAniruddha Deshpande - University of WashingtonMelaku Desta - Debre Markos UniversityMeghnath Dhimal - Nepal Hlth Res Council, Hlth Res Sect, Kathmandu, NepalDaniel Diaz - Universidad Autónoma de SinaloaMesfin Tadese Dinberu - Debre Berhan UniversityShirin Djalalinia - Minist Hlth & Med Educ, Deputy Res & Technol, Tehran, IranManisha Dubey - World Food ProgrammeEleonora Dubljanin - University of BelgradeAndre R. Duraes - Universidade Federal da BahiaLaura Dwyer-Lindgren - University of WashingtonLucas Earl - University of WashingtonMohammad Ebrahimi Kalan - Florida Int Univ, Epidemiol Dept, Miami, FL 33199 USAZiad El-Khatib - Karolinska InstitutetBabak Eshrati - Minist Hlth & Med Educ, Ctr Communicable Dis Control, Tehran, IranMahbobeh Faramarzi - Babol Univ Med Sci, Babol Sar, IranMohammad Fareed - Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic UniversityAndre Faro - Federal ReserveSeyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad - Karolinska InstitutetEduarda Fernandes - Univ Porto, REQUIMTE LAQV, Porto, PortugalIrina Filip - Kaiser PermanenteFlorian Fischer - Bielefeld UniversityTakeshi Fukumoto - Kobe UniversityJose A. Garcia - Ramon de la Fuente Muniz Natl Inst Psychiat, Mexico City, DF, MexicoParamjit Singh Gill - University of WarwickTiffany K. Gill - The University of AdelaidePhilimon N. Gona - Univ Massachusetts, Nursing & Hlth Sci Dept, Boston, MA 02125 USASameer Vali Gopalani - University of OklahomaAyman Grada - Boston UniversityYuming Guo - Monash UniversityRajeev Gupta - Rajasthan Univ Hlth Sci, Acad & Res Dept, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaVipin Gupta - University of DelhiArvin Haj-Mirzaian - University of TehranArya Haj-Mirzaian - University of TehranRandah R. Hamadeh - Arabian Gulf UniversitySamer Hamidi - Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart UniversityMehedi Hasan - BRAC UniversityHamid Yimam Hassen - Mizan Tepi UniversityDelia Hendrie - Curtin UniversityAndualem Henok - Mizan Tepi UniversityLocal Burden of Disease Educational Attainment CollaboratorsDavid C Schwebel (Contributor) - Research Administration
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nature (London), Vol.577(7789), pp.235-238
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41586-019-1872-1
- PMID
- 31875853
- PMCID
- PMC7015853
- NLM abbreviation
- Nature
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- eISSN
- 1476-4687
- Publisher
- NATURE PORTFOLIO
- Number of pages
- 4
- Grant note
- OPP1132415 / Bill AMP; Melinda Gates Foundation; CGIAR
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/09/2020
- Academic Unit
- Research Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984949184902771
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