Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China

This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical rel...

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Main Author:	Bredenkamp, Caryn
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY ANTENATAL CARE BICYCLES BIRTH CONTROL BREASTFEEDING BULLETIN CHILD CARE CHILD HEALTH CHILD NUTRITION CHILD SURVIVAL CHINESE POPULATION CITIES COMMON COLD COMMUNITY HEALTH COMPETENCIES CONTRACEPTION COST OF TRAVEL CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISEASE CONTROL ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EFFECTIVE ACTION EMPLOYMENT EPIDEMIOLOGY EXPENDITURES FAMILY-PLANNING METHODS FARMLAND FERTILITY FEWER CHILDREN FINANCIAL PENALTIES FOOD POLICY FOOD PRICES FORMAL EDUCATION GENDER DIFFERENTIALS GENDER DISPARITIES GOVERNMENT POLICIES HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH POLICY HEALTH REFORM HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SECTOR REFORM HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SPECIALIST HEALTH STATUS HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES ILLNESS IMMUNIZATION IMMUNIZATIONS INCOME GROWTH INFANTS INFLUENZA INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY LABOR SUPPLY LIVESTOCK OWNERSHIP MALNUTRITION MALNUTRITION AMONG CHILDREN MATERNAL CARE MEDICINES MOTHER NATIONAL LEVEL NEIGHBORHOODS NUMBER OF ADULTS NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OBSTETRIC CARE PEDIATRICS POLICY CHANGE POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION POLICY POSTNATAL CARE PREGNANCIES PREGNANT WOMEN PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS PUBLIC POLICY PUNITIVE MEASURES QUALITY CARE QUALITY OF CARE QUALITY OF HEALTH QUALITY OF SERVICES RESPECT RURAL SAVINGS SERVICE PROVISION SEX SIBLINGS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TRAVEL COSTS TRAVEL TIME TRAVEL TIMES TRUE URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION USER FEES WALKING WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN
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spelling	okr-10986-65142021-04-23T14:02:31Z Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China Bredenkamp, Caryn ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY ANTENATAL CARE BICYCLES BIRTH CONTROL BREASTFEEDING BULLETIN CHILD CARE CHILD HEALTH CHILD NUTRITION CHILD SURVIVAL CHINESE POPULATION CITIES COMMON COLD COMMUNITY HEALTH COMPETENCIES CONTRACEPTION COST OF TRAVEL CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISEASE CONTROL ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EFFECTIVE ACTION EMPLOYMENT EPIDEMIOLOGY EXPENDITURES FAMILY-PLANNING METHODS FARMLAND FERTILITY FEWER CHILDREN FINANCIAL PENALTIES FOOD POLICY FOOD PRICES FORMAL EDUCATION GENDER DIFFERENTIALS GENDER DISPARITIES GOVERNMENT POLICIES HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH POLICY HEALTH REFORM HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SECTOR REFORM HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SPECIALIST HEALTH STATUS HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES ILLNESS IMMUNIZATION IMMUNIZATIONS INCOME GROWTH INFANTS INFLUENZA INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY LABOR SUPPLY LIVESTOCK OWNERSHIP MALNUTRITION MALNUTRITION AMONG CHILDREN MATERNAL CARE MEDICINES MOTHER NATIONAL LEVEL NEIGHBORHOODS NUMBER OF ADULTS NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OBSTETRIC CARE PEDIATRICS POLICY CHANGE POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION POLICY POSTNATAL CARE PREGNANCIES PREGNANT WOMEN PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS PUBLIC POLICY PUNITIVE MEASURES QUALITY CARE QUALITY OF CARE QUALITY OF HEALTH QUALITY OF SERVICES RESPECT RURAL SAVINGS SERVICE PROVISION SEX SIBLINGS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TRAVEL COSTS TRAVEL TIME TRAVEL TIMES TRUE URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION USER FEES WALKING WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical relationship between income and nutritional status, and the extent to which that relationship is mediated by access to quality healthcare and being an only-child, is investigated using ordinary least squares, random effects, fixed effects, and instrumental variables models. In the preferred model - a fixed effects model where income is instrumented - the author find that being an only-child increases height-for-age z-scores by 0.119 of a standard deviation. The magnitude of this effect is found to be largely gender and income neutral. By contrast, access to quality healthcare and income is not found to be significantly associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. 2012-05-29T14:00:58Z 2012-05-29T14:00:58Z 2008-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/04/9354384/health-reform-population-policy-child-nutritional-status-china http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6514 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4587 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific China
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topic	ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY ANTENATAL CARE BICYCLES BIRTH CONTROL BREASTFEEDING BULLETIN CHILD CARE CHILD HEALTH CHILD NUTRITION CHILD SURVIVAL CHINESE POPULATION CITIES COMMON COLD COMMUNITY HEALTH COMPETENCIES CONTRACEPTION COST OF TRAVEL CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISEASE CONTROL ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EFFECTIVE ACTION EMPLOYMENT EPIDEMIOLOGY EXPENDITURES FAMILY-PLANNING METHODS FARMLAND FERTILITY FEWER CHILDREN FINANCIAL PENALTIES FOOD POLICY FOOD PRICES FORMAL EDUCATION GENDER DIFFERENTIALS GENDER DISPARITIES GOVERNMENT POLICIES HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH POLICY HEALTH REFORM HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SECTOR REFORM HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SPECIALIST HEALTH STATUS HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES ILLNESS IMMUNIZATION IMMUNIZATIONS INCOME GROWTH INFANTS INFLUENZA INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY LABOR SUPPLY LIVESTOCK OWNERSHIP MALNUTRITION MALNUTRITION AMONG CHILDREN MATERNAL CARE MEDICINES MOTHER NATIONAL LEVEL NEIGHBORHOODS NUMBER OF ADULTS NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OBSTETRIC CARE PEDIATRICS POLICY CHANGE POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION POLICY POSTNATAL CARE PREGNANCIES PREGNANT WOMEN PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS PUBLIC POLICY PUNITIVE MEASURES QUALITY CARE QUALITY OF CARE QUALITY OF HEALTH QUALITY OF SERVICES RESPECT RURAL SAVINGS SERVICE PROVISION SEX SIBLINGS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TRAVEL COSTS TRAVEL TIME TRAVEL TIMES TRUE URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION USER FEES WALKING WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN
spellingShingle	ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY ANTENATAL CARE BICYCLES BIRTH CONTROL BREASTFEEDING BULLETIN CHILD CARE CHILD HEALTH CHILD NUTRITION CHILD SURVIVAL CHINESE POPULATION CITIES COMMON COLD COMMUNITY HEALTH COMPETENCIES CONTRACEPTION COST OF TRAVEL CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISEASE CONTROL ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EFFECTIVE ACTION EMPLOYMENT EPIDEMIOLOGY EXPENDITURES FAMILY-PLANNING METHODS FARMLAND FERTILITY FEWER CHILDREN FINANCIAL PENALTIES FOOD POLICY FOOD PRICES FORMAL EDUCATION GENDER DIFFERENTIALS GENDER DISPARITIES GOVERNMENT POLICIES HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH POLICY HEALTH REFORM HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SECTOR REFORM HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SPECIALIST HEALTH STATUS HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES ILLNESS IMMUNIZATION IMMUNIZATIONS INCOME GROWTH INFANTS INFLUENZA INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY LABOR SUPPLY LIVESTOCK OWNERSHIP MALNUTRITION MALNUTRITION AMONG CHILDREN MATERNAL CARE MEDICINES MOTHER NATIONAL LEVEL NEIGHBORHOODS NUMBER OF ADULTS NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OBSTETRIC CARE PEDIATRICS POLICY CHANGE POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION POLICY POSTNATAL CARE PREGNANCIES PREGNANT WOMEN PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS PUBLIC POLICY PUNITIVE MEASURES QUALITY CARE QUALITY OF CARE QUALITY OF HEALTH QUALITY OF SERVICES RESPECT RURAL SAVINGS SERVICE PROVISION SEX SIBLINGS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TRAVEL COSTS TRAVEL TIME TRAVEL TIMES TRUE URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION USER FEES WALKING WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN Bredenkamp, Caryn Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China
geographic_facet	East Asia and Pacific China
relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4587
description	This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical relationship between income and nutritional status, and the extent to which that relationship is mediated by access to quality healthcare and being an only-child, is investigated using ordinary least squares, random effects, fixed effects, and instrumental variables models. In the preferred model - a fixed effects model where income is instrumented - the author find that being an only-child increases height-for-age z-scores by 0.119 of a standard deviation. The magnitude of this effect is found to be largely gender and income neutral. By contrast, access to quality healthcare and income is not found to be significantly associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Bredenkamp, Caryn
author_facet	Bredenkamp, Caryn
author_sort	Bredenkamp, Caryn
title	Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China
title_short	Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China
title_full	Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China
title_fullStr	Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China
title_full_unstemmed	Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China
title_sort	health reform, population policy and child nutritional status in china
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/04/9354384/health-reform-population-policy-child-nutritional-status-china http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6514
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Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China

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